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the whole amount
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the state of being total
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the state or period of an eclipse when light from the eclipsed body is totally obscured
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John Lilly, a neurophysiologist, promised to give the agency “push-button control over the totality of motivation and consciousness” via electrical means.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
“The reality is, you have to look at the totality here, not a single moment,” she said.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
“Based on the totality of the evidence in the case, including the body worn camera video, we determined that pursuing the probation violation was the most appropriate sanction,” she wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
In Spain, totality occurred while the setting Sun was already close to the horizon.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Taken individually, none of the twenty-five Norte Chico cities rivaled Sumer’s cities in size, but the totality was bigger than Sumer.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
The moon was bathed in the reflected red and orange hues of Earth’s sunsets and sunrises for about 1 1/2 hours, one of the longest totalities of the decade.
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2022
Essentially, we need to understand that mass immunity is not a matter of totalities; rather, it is a continuum that stretches from "can't ever be infected" to "won't be hospitalized or will die if infected."
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2020
The longest totalities provide about six minutes of being in the complete shadow of the moon.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2017
The paranoid outlook can be internally logical, never trivializing, and capable of explaining any or all observed phenomena as aspects of larger, symmetrical totalities.
From Slate ● May 31, 2017
A collective name may be used as a general name when it is extended on the ground of what is common to all such totalities as it designates.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto
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