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[toht-l] / ˈtoʊt l /






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The list includes a total of 18 Californians selected by the governor and his wife, First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom, for their contributions to film, viticulture, sports, dining, art, literature, music, education, politics and business.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

His latest pleas of not guilty mean he now denies a total of 17 charges concerning allegations by nine women between 1983 and 2016.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026

That meant looking beyond monthly premiums to compare total annual costs, including deductibles and prescription drug expenses, as well as checking pharmacies.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026

The number of Uber and Uber Eats orders made by AI agents over the busy Halloween week, out of 320 million total orders that week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

We might as well have been total strangers.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Industry totals can also obscure changes in particular jobs, Mui noted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026

Subtracting Apple’s nine-month figures through June from its annual totals shows September-quarter repurchases rose 20.7% to $24.3 billion.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

Basin’s highest rain totals at about an inch and a half.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

Overall, the 2027 budget plan totals 821 trillion won, a 12.8 percent increase on-year, making it the largest budget proposal on record.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

Brian shrugged, tabulating his own totals once more to be sure that Brother Leon wouldn’t blame him for any discrepancies.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

Since 2007, his pay has totaled $2.4 billion, including salaries, bonuses and other compensation, according to Courtney Yu, the director of research for Equilar, a research firm that gathers data on executives and boards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

It deployed $2.2 billion in private equity, including capital for the acquisition of a music publishing and technology platform, while segment monetization totaled $1.8 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Overall revenues for the first nine months of the year totaled 859 billion riyals, while spending was just over 1.1 trillion riyals, resulting in a deficit of 244 billion riyals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

Continuing claims, which scale with the total size of the unemployed population, totaled about 1.7 million in the week through Oct.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

The twisting crunch that totaled Mr. Costello’s van had only lasted a second.

From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin

Commercial income from sponsors totalled £949.94m in the seasons from 2009-10 to 2017-18.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

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

Hull, who hit 13 of 14 fairways last Friday, totalled 63 putts in the first two rounds.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 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

On one page were noted excellences, on the other defects, and when the two columns were totalled the debtor and creditor side of the transaction was set forth.

From Thomas Carlyle Famous Scots Series by Hector Carsewell Macpherson

Anthropic attributed the third-quarter operating loss to short-term agreements for AI computing power totaling $5 billion as well as $2 billion in noncash charges related to a donation-matching program.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

Lula pulled around 4.4 million more votes than his rival, totaling over 64.2 million on his seventh go at the presidency -- the highest proportion ever counted in Brazil.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

But legal expenses totaling roughly $10 billion tied to the August agreement to resolve the case over the mental health of young people did affect Meta’s bottom line.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Paxton took out mortgages totaling $1.9 million for them, according to legal documents filed with the local county.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

Thus I have created an opportunity for Lambert to earn back everything I took from the city—a fortune totaling $40 million at my last reckoning.

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson

Brent Council issued PCNs totalling £1.15m after introducing the scheme outside Manor School in Kensal Rise in November 2024, saying it would improve road safety and the environment.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

After bumper second-quarter profits both SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics announced buybacks totalling $40 billion that were completed earlier than expected in mid-October.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

The port’s record September — totalling 1,042,652 containers — also represents the most volume ever moved through any port in the Western Hemisphere.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

They also say those convicted have been jailed for sentences totalling 118 years and 22 migrant criminals were deported as a result of their offences.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Statutory increase in premiums totalling EU 2*10^5 over five years.

From Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow


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