sum
noun
the aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars as determined by or as if by the mathematical process of addition.
has summed
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present perfectof sum (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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No review has summed up the appeal of Mr. Mallet’s two Simplissime titles as succinctly as this one, from a customer on Amazon.fr:
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2016
British theologian Steve Holmes has summed it up more concisely: Liberal Christianity is “Christianity that is acutely alive to the challenges to belief coming from modern philosophy”—from experience as it is lived.
From Slate ● May 15, 2016
Jeremy Corbyn addressing the pro-refugee rally in Parliament Square Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images The Economist’s Jeremy Cliffe has summed up what the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader means in 20 tweets.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 12, 2015
No one has summed up this doomed but necessary mission better than W. H. Auden in his poem "The Novelist."
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2012
The subject may be summed up, as Du Bois-Reymond has summed it up, by reference to the case of a whale struck by a harpoon in the tail.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John
