sum
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In 2010, a clone of his champion mare Cuartetera sold at auction for $800,000, an eye-popping sum for a polo pony at the time.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 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
Murrell's lawyer suggested to the court that his client would be able to repay the sum of the embezzlement.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
Braun argued to jurors Monday that a “reasonable sum for this loss is $10 million.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026
In the Meno Socrates persuaded an uneducated slave boy that he already knew that the square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing sum
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Arithmetic
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The Number System
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