sum
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The stadiums have been rented for a fixed sum.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
The trust funds were a way of cumulating workers’ aggregate tax payments to ensure an equal sum would be paid out again, in aggregate, at some point.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
Another incentive to take the higher sum: What if you invested that $700 every month for the next 19 years, and spent the rest living your best life?
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
In sum, it all sounds less like a good-faith effort to invigorate a vital newsmagazine for modern times—and more like an effort to have it fall apart, piece by piece.
From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026
Well, let’s start off with 2, and subtract the terms of the sum, one by one.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Arithmetic
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The Number System
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