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sums

  • plural of sum.
  • present tense form of sum (3rd person singular).

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Sums of £4.5bn have been mentioned as a potential sale price.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2023

“It’s absolutely beautiful. Sums her up perfectly,” wrote one user.

From Washington Post • Jun. 30, 2021

Sums up this Liverpool team in a way.

From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2020

Sums up Jones, "the last 18 months before the assassination was the most difficult time of his life."

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2018

It was dedicated by Titus, who upon that Occasion celebrated a great Feast, distributed large Sums to the common People, and enter’d five thousand wild Beasts of all Sorts into it in one Day.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von