in toto
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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"Nobody understands these systems in toto," he said.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2022
But the association is not opposing the reporting requirements in toto, said Ms. Smith.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 1, 2021
When The Washington Post contacted Watkins after the El Paso declaration turned up on 8chan, he replied, in toto, “I hope you are well.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 8, 2019
Afraid of prosecution for obscenity, Faber & Faber passed on “Ulysses,” but it published individual sections of Joyce’s “Work in Progress,” and then issued it in toto as “Finnegans Wake,” in 1939.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 23, 2019
It underpinned the more difficult “quadrivium”—arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy— that students went on to learn; all seven subjects taken in toto being the so-called liberal arts.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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