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aggregate, full, sum, sum total, total, totality, whole
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In Tuesday’s nine innings could be seen a painful summation of the Padres nosedive in 2019. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Orioles come back to take one from Padres," 30 July 2019 In confronting the looming horror of the Civil War, many Americans found a fuller summation of their hopes and fears in Spiritualism than in something more sober. — Ed Simon, The New Republic, "Marianne Williamson’s Spiritualism Has Deep, Liberal Roots," 7 Aug. 2019 Life is the summation of experience, both good and bad, and in A Dream About Lightning Bugs, Folds doesn’t hold back about the wrong turns, stumbles and falls that brought him here. — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, "A Musical Memoir: Ben Folds Shares 10 Songs That Shaped His Life," 6 Aug. 2019 To say this was a reductive summation of both of their work is an understatement. — Soraya Roberts, Longreads, "This (Wo)Man’s Work," 19 July 2019 In summation, the book falsely asserts the massacre was orchestrated by the government as a way to promote gun violence prevention measures. — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, "Dad of Boy Killed in Sandy Hook Shooting Wins Defamation Suit Against Hoaxers," 19 June 2019 That might chase away conservative viewers, who could react poorly to that summation of what’s going on, no matter how accurate. — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, "Domestic terrorism is on the rise. Why won’t cable news networks say so?," 29 Oct. 2018 His attorneys, in their own summations, told the jury that the government had failed to present enough evidence to prove the charges beyond a reasonable doubt. — Aruna Viswanatha, WSJ, "Manafort Jury Ends First Day of Deliberations," 16 Aug. 2018 Dean is a master of the art of summation, briskly anchoring readers who may be unfamiliar with these writers before moving on to make connections between them. — Meg Waite Clayton, San Francisco Chronicle, "‘Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion,’ by Michelle Dean," 23 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'summation.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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