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When you get locked up, your digital presence is the total sum of your activity on social media, and its footprints continue stepping without you.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

The company says it will take multiples of that sum to commercialize the discovery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

That sum would barely make a difference to the football gods in England, Spain or France, but would been enormous in Malawi or Madagascar.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026

Nicholas Bacon KC for the claimants told the court the group took out insurance cover in the sum of £16.2m, and that ANL had "overspent what they'd told us they'd actually spent".

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

The sum of it had almost entirely depleted the modest savings Ekon had accrued from his time at the temple, not that Koffi needed to know that, or anything else about his financial situation.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

Since 2021, college athletes have been able to earn money through NIL — sometimes getting paid huge sums with little oversight, a situation that’s been likened to the “Wild West.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

The project sums up the fixation of both Mexican Institute of Sound and Meridian Brothers with analogue archaeology.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

But the World Bank sees ways of avoiding excessive dependence on one or the other of the two rivals without having to spend the large sums required to replicate the AI supply chain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

"When you're working to live, these aren't small sums of money. It wasn't for luxuries, it was to survive. I was working to pay my bills," Joan adds.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

He had invested large sums in the hunt, and the animal itself was very valuable.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks

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

In the 1990s, fro-yo nurtured a dubious reputation for healthiness summed up by George Costanza shrieking in disbelief on “Seinfeld,” “How could this not have any fat?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

France head coach Didier Deschamps summed up the mood in his camp before the game in Miami when he said: "The best for France and England would be for this match not to exist."

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

Samuel Stearns summed up their feelings in a bit of awkward verse: “This mortal Plague at thy command / And thou thereby hast humbled sinful man!”

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

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

“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

“The ones who aren’t creators or influencers see wearers as cringe,” Cohen said, sardonically summing up the general feeling of nonwearers as “Your life is not that cool, bro.”

From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2026

But there was a good deal of comment at the time—nine people out of ten thought Seton was innocent and that the judge's summing up had been vindictive.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie