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SpaceX’s claim is that its total addressable market is nearly 90 percent of the United States’ gross domestic product.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
By December that year, 61 had been returned to custody - approximately 13% of the total released.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
The total is eventually expected to reach 52.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Amazon generated more than $68 billion in revenue from advertising alone last year; its total revenue in 2025 reached nearly $717 billion.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
The following morning, the radiation levels at the plant dropped sufficiently for reinforcements to join the Fukushima 50, bringing the total number of workers on-site to 580.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
The Middle East oil companies are also moving more oil to the Red Sea through pipelines, further expanding their export totals.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
The totals are not definitive and could yet rise.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
As is often the case with heavy showers, rainfall totals could vary considerably over short distances.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
They are necessary because many of the more than 125,000 employers surveyed monthly about staffing totals send in their responses late, if at all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
From a few incidents in which before and after totals are known with relative certainty, Dobyns calculated that in the first 130 years of contact about 95 percent of the people in the Americas died.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
At the time, prosecutors said he had defrauded about 28 victims and that the fraud totaled about $993,000.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
Continuing claims, which scale with the total size of the unemployed population, totaled just under 1.78 million in the week through Aug. 15, falling by 18,000 from the downwardly revised total a week earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
US energy exports to Canada totaled $26 billion last year.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
As of Thursday, his net worth totaled more than $195 billion, making him the world’s seventh-richest person, according to Bloomberg.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
Deaths from all types of malignancies of blood and lymph totaled 25,400, increasing sharply from the 16,690 figure of 1950.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
In the capital Havana, power outages totalled more than 30 hours at a time, while in the outlying provinces, it was several days before electricity was restored.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
The document release totalled more than 1,500 pages.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
Sooryavanshi's individual prize money totalled more than £30,000.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
The deficit during the first six months of this fiscal year totalled $1.2 trillion, which is $139 billion less than the same period last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
The figures for the three groups having been totalled separately, those obtained for the "A" group were weighted accordingly.
From Report on the Cost of Living in Ireland June 1922 by Ministry of Economic Affairs
Vu tried to cash at least six Treasury checks totaling $2.15 million and successfully cashed two tax fund refunds worth $772,159, the indictment says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
Seated at a banquette table in the back of the restaurant, the pair ordered two entrees, drinks, and appetizers, totaling $371.55, and at some point during the meal, Eatherly began livestreaming.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
Under the outline now being discussed, Nvidia would provide a financial backstop for the first phase, totaling roughly five gigawatts of power, and then decide later whether or how to finance the remainder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The Harbor International Core Fund Fund’s institutional shares have annual expenses totaling 0.85% of assets under management, which means $85 in annual fees for a $10,000 investment.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
My brain is humming like a cash register, totaling it up, making change.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
It shows there have been 66 confiscation orders between January 2021 and March 2026, totalling £7.3m.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
In 2024, Iran relied on the UAE for 30.6 percent of its imports totalling roughly $21 billion according to the World Trade Organization.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
The UAE is also Iran's third largest export destination, making up 12 percent of its exports, totalling more than $7 billion.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
In the past year, Thames Water boss Chris Weston saw his pay increase 14% to £1.63m while other directors received bonuses totalling £4.1m.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Early in 1899 I received two orders, large in their way, totalling some five million rounds, for the .303 magazine rifle, from Sydney and Melbourne.
From The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon by J. M. (Joseph Maria) Gordon
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