sum
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The fund managers can demand one quarter of the payment in cash, a sum that StepStone has estimated could reach $660 million.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
“It’s not necessarily a financial hurdle,” Evans says, noting “Choo Choo Revue” cost $300,000, with about half of that sum dedicated to the creation of new puppets and scenery.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
The bank released a sum of money that they said was her balance.
From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026
Arsenal's season is a sum of all its parts - and has not been without its challenging moments.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
In modern schools, children learn of Pythagoras for his famed theorem: the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.
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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