sum
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Arsenal's season is a sum of all its parts - and has not been without its challenging moments.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
The complaint “was filed too late, against the wrong party, and for an unsupported and excessive sum of damages,” the filing said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026
What are the pros and cons of receiving the remainder in a lump sum?
From MarketWatch • May 16, 2026
The sum: A lot more people are empowered to take a lot more risks on a lot less information.
From Slate • May 15, 2026
Her family hadn’t had enough money for a dowry, the sum any girl in Florence needed for a marriage, and girls without dowries disappeared into convents, cut off from the world.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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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