in toto
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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To put this in perspective, that $145 billion is more than any other country except what China spends on defense in toto and constitutes approximately half of China's full military budget.
From Salon • Apr. 18, 2023
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
Surely it must be the nurturing—the Baby Mozart tapes, the church sermons, the museum trips, the French lessons, the bargaining and hugging and quarreling and punishing that, in toto, constitute the act of parenting.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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