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
Cohen might consider refreshing her palette before taking the Greeks, in toto, down the tubes again.
From Washington Post • Nov. 12, 2021
But the association is not opposing the reporting requirements in toto, said Ms. Smith.
From Washington Times • Aug. 1, 2021
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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