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AI has continued to become a more meaningful growth engine for Lenovo with AI-related revenue in the quarter making up 35% of the total.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
When the capital came under siege by Islamist fighters, they managed to impose a partial blockade there and total blockades elsewhere including the city of Ségou.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
He expects Dell’s AI and enterprise businesses to exceed expectations, and for the company to see between 50% and 60% growth in total revenue.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Just 4% of Latino respondents and 1% of the total sample of likely voters said they would vote for Becerra because he is a Latino candidate and a child of immigrants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
I took Gran’s initial resting heart rate, counting a total of thirty-four beats for thirty seconds, and scribbled sixty-eight in my notebook.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
More than 2.4 million patients attended emergency departments each month for May, June and July – the three highest monthly totals recorded in history.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Note: Parts may not equal totals due to rounding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Chipotle’s chicken burrito with rice, beans, cheese and salsa, plus a side of chips, totals $12.50.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Across all four apps, estimated calorie totals were about 250 to 345 calories too low per meal on average.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
Then he announces, “The two teams with the highest scores from all preliminary rounds will meet for what we call a ‘quiz-off,’ so point totals are critical.
From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper
The estate tax returns, federal and state, totaled some 4,000 pages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
New jobless claims in the last three weeks totaled 199,000, 198,000 and 189,000 after adjusting for seasonal swings in employment.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
Watching Graham Platner’s campaign implode was like watching that expensive red sports car get totaled.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
Revenue for the world’s biggest rocket launcher and satellite-internet provider in the second quarter totaled $7.8 billion, up 92% from the same period last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
The twisting crunch that totaled Mr. Costello’s van had only lasted a second.
From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin
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
In contrast, Canadian-resident return trips from overseas countries by air totalled 1.5 million in March, up 4.9% on-year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
The missile business for U.S. prime contractors totalled about $30 billion in 2025, per Lockheed Martin.
From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026
So, avoiding tropes and flights of eloquence, he just stood at Table, a sort of humanized ledger, briefly set forth items of his account, totalled them up and sat down.
From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 25, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
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
Amazon added it remained committed to reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 under The Climate Pledge, and had enabled 40 carbon-free energy projects totaling nearly 10 gigawatts in Texas.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
SharkNinja said it submitted refund claims totaling about $247.1 million through U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
FCC Chair Brendan Carr’s financial statements show he has reported accepting honors gala tickets from CBS or its parent company eight times since his 2017 appointment to the commission, totaling over $75,000 in gifts.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Later Sumerian cuneiform did become capable of rendering prose, but it did so by the messy system that I’ve already described, with mixtures of logograms, phonetic signs, and unpronounced determinatives totaling hundreds of separate signs.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
They were also ordered to pay victim surcharges totalling £2,960, and costs of £17,250.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
GSK said it had taken a hit totalling £1.3 billion after not proceeding further with camlipixant following final stage trials.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
J&J said the settlement would cover about 69,000 cases, totalling most of the remaining talc-related claims.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
At Anthropic, whose main product is Claude, workers were also recently said to have been allowed to sell shares, external totalling some $6bn.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
There are fourteen branch banks here with clearings totalling $33,000,000.
From Canada West by Canada. Dept. of the interior
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