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[suhm] / sʌm /


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For many in Hazle Township, which has a median household income of about $60,000, a payout of $10,000 would be a significant sum.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Here are the numbers that sum up the Dodgers’ 2026 regular season:

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

According to football finance expert Kieran Maguire, this sum alone has now exceeded £1bn since the leveraged Glazer family buyout in 2005.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

If successful, Missouri could end up paying out a sum close to $80 million.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

An infinite sum of numbers can be infinite, even if the numbers themselves approach zero.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Love quickly gained the trust of dozens of women, allegedly convincing them to give him large sums of money.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

"There are individuals exploiting the lack of coordination between stores, between police forces and making vast sums of money," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

Most took sporadic lump sums at times when they had large expenses, or they took one annual distribution once they hit RMD age — and took only the amount required.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

Educators call this “differentiation,” and it’s nearly impossible to do well without technology unless you spend enormous sums of money to get student-tutor ratios down to the single digits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Either way, it is as impressive as my grocery sums in the Piggly Wiggly.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

In a phone interview, Anang Mittal, an Indian-American who has worked for Sen. Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Mike Johnson, summed up Mr. Trump’s appeal to voters like him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

His favorite trick can be summed up in the language of an infant’s board book: See Mike run.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

“Pacing the frontier” might more realistically be summed up as “trying to stay just ahead of trouble, on purpose.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

The show, called “Yard Sale Liberation,” may best be summed up by this passage in the notes: “This is not a fantasy. These are pieces for the world.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Francis Poulenc neatly summed up the prevailing French ambivalence towards Wagner by saying that, after listening to him, it was necessary to cleanse one’s spirit and ears by listening to Mozart.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

He even published his autobiography, but instead of summing up his career, it restarted it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Major said, summing up the sentiment he heard from clients.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

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

"So far, wait and see," one EU diplomat said, on condition of anonymity, summing up the attitude toward Magyar.

From Barron's ● Apr. 29, 2026

In one of Kepler’s lesser-known works, Volume-Measurement of Barrels, he does this in three dimensions, slicing barrels into planes and summing the planes together.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife




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