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This incredible access to food—from carts of dim sum in Chinatown to the perfectly chewy Upper West Side bagels I was raised on—instilled in me a lifelong appreciation and appetite for food of all kinds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

I frequently struggle to find the right words to describe the elements weaving together the concrete and the conceptual, so I find it simpler to sum up all that as magic.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

In sum, they open a window into the administration’s ideological preoccupations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

The sum -- equal to more than $1 billion at the exchange rate at the time of the ruling -- led local media to dub it the "divorce of the century".

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

To make the sum equal 5, start with 5s and –5s instead of 1s and –1s, and we can show that 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + ... equals 5.

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

Analysts have noted that heavy selling in recent weeks was focused on concerns about when the huge sums invested in AI would see returns, rather than fundamental problems in the sector.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

Hare coursers were linked to crimes involving significant sums of money, says Lacks-Kelly, not "minimum-wage crimes".

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

These withheld sums are also a pittance in relation to the states’ overall Medicaid spending.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

At the time, Pelosi was a 46-year-old mother of five children and a party activist known for raising large sums for Democratic candidates.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

This phrase, ‘immutable mobiles’, sums up neatly the epistemological paradox of the fact: facts can be moved around, transferred from one person to another, without being degraded, or so at least the story goes.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

B. Riley analyst Mike Crawford summed up the political-military scene in a note to clients on Thursday by referring to “an emerging generational recapitalization of global defense posture and budgets.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

Former England goalkeeper and BBC Sport pundit Joe Hart summed it up well.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

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

It’s time to sell Goldman Sachs and other bank stocks, analysts at Oppenheimer say, and their views can be summed up by looking at Warren Buffett.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

If there was one term that summed up the new science for those who were involved in constructing it, it was not ‘evidence’ but ‘experience’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

Judge Paul Ramsey spent about two hours summing up the case on Thursday morning before sending the seven men and five women out.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 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

“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

That is another reason why his book drew such a response—it struck a chord, because the time was ripe for such a summing up and laying of foundations.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin