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the whole amount
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the state of being total
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the state or period of an eclipse when light from the eclipsed body is totally obscured
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Alternatively, stick to Europe and watch from the Rock of Gibraltar, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, where you can expect more than 4 minutes of totality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
In Spain, totality occurred while the setting Sun was already close to the horizon.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
A tavern’s open door to my right revealed a line of patrons perched atop barstools, their backs to the open door, watching a TV showing the eclipse nearing totality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
At the moment of totality, people began applauding.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Taken individually, none of the twenty-five Norte Chico cities rivaled Sumer’s cities in size, but the totality was bigger than Sumer.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
The moon was bathed in the reflected red and orange hues of Earth’s sunsets and sunrises for about 1 1/2 hours, one of the longest totalities of the decade.
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2022
Essentially, we need to understand that mass immunity is not a matter of totalities; rather, it is a continuum that stretches from "can't ever be infected" to "won't be hospitalized or will die if infected."
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2020
The longest totalities provide about six minutes of being in the complete shadow of the moon.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2017
The paranoid outlook can be internally logical, never trivializing, and capable of explaining any or all observed phenomena as aspects of larger, symmetrical totalities.
From Slate ● May 31, 2017
We shall call this the ‘vicious-circle principle,’ because it enables us to avoid the vicious circles involved in the assumption of illegitimate totalities.
From The philosophy of B*rtr*nd R*ss*ll by Various
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