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[suhm] / sʌm /


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To run some numbers, a good place to start is by looking at immediate annuities, which are insurance products that turn a sum of money into a lifetime income stream.

From MarketWatch Jul. 17, 2026

Her $10 on Bryce and Trinity was less about earning a large lump sum and more about getting heavily invested in the show.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

Parliament's standards commissioner is investigating whether he should have declared that sum upon becoming an MP in his published register of financial interests.

From BBC Jul. 9, 2026

They’re the backbone of everything from Chinese tomato-and-egg stir-fries to noodle dishes whose sauces somehow taste deeper than the sum of their parts.

From Salon Jul. 8, 2026

"Fifty thousand dollars was an appropriate sum," according to Ames.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

With some religious institutions managing vast sums of money and operating on a scale comparable to major corporations, ensuring transparency is a persistent challenge.

From Barron's Jul. 19, 2026

The tech sector is expected to report robust earnings growth, but the real focus for investors is whether megacap tech companies are plowing ever-greater sums into AI investments.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

A sizable amount of that cash is going to overseas suppliers of chips and memory, but large sums are also sloshing around the U.S. economy as stimulus.

From MarketWatch Jul. 17, 2026

The vast sums being forked out to pay for the tickets alone and criticism of Fifa's dynamic pricing strategy, which raises prices when demand is high, have been well-documented.

From BBC Jul. 16, 2026

Yet the big Wall Street banks at the center of it just kept on growing, along with the sums of money that they doled out to twenty-six-year-olds to perform tasks of no obvious social utility.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

But even if the country’s worst impulses still bubbled up, U.S. midfielder Tyler Adams described a sentiment around his team that might as well have summed up the whole tournament.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

One employee summed up the mood with a meme from "The Office," posted on an internal company forum, reading: "0 days since our last nonsense."

From Barron's Jul. 1, 2026

In an interview with the Daily Mail,, external she summed up her love of making people smile.

From BBC Jun. 29, 2026

If “The Other Bennet Sister” has taught us anything, it’s that romance can be summed up in two words: bird calls.

From Salon Jun. 25, 2026

“Not in his own rooms,” Bernard summed up.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

Mike Murphy continues his wonderful series of What’s Worth Streaming, reviewing the offerings from eight streaming services and summing up which ones are worth paying for and which ones you should skip for the month.

From MarketWatch Jul. 2, 2026

The song was credited with summing up the depressed mood of the country at the time, with riots in several British cities in 1981.

From BBC Feb. 20, 2026

“He didn’t do drugs. He didn’t party. He made films,” Mr. Fischer writes, summing up the young Mr. Lucas.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 13, 2026

“The ones who aren’t creators or influencers see wearers as cringe,” Cohen said, sardonically summing up the general feeling of nonwearers as “Your life is not that cool, bro.”

From Slate Feb. 12, 2026

I watched, wondering what her purpose was. finally, she spoke, summing up her work.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein




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