in toto
Example Sentences
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"Nobody understands these systems in toto," he said.
From Salon • Jun. 5, 2022
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
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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