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[toht-l] / ˈtoʊt l /






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This extra funding is drawn down from the state’s general fund — so it adds to the total allotted for education.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

NewsGuard has identified 21 pink slime outlets that launched this year, bringing the total number of such sites to 1,179.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

That always appeared a match-winning total on a surface offering bounce for the pace bowlers and turn for the spinners.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Ford said the hawk has logged more than 300 flights, over 1,170 hours in total, achieving a roughly 80% reduction in evidence of bird activity in areas monitored around the plant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

I counted the beats, a total of fifty-five, for thirty seconds.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

CPL shared the post on Instagram, where other patrons began volunteering their totals in the comments — a spontaneous little leaderboard for people whose competitive edge expresses itself through returning DVDs on time.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

Garreaud said precipitation totals reached levels "rarely seen in the otherwise extremely arid region."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026

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

Now take a look at the last column, which totals up all the summer gains from first grade to fifth grade.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

Continuing claims, which scale with the total size of the unemployed population, totaled 1.72 million in the week through Sept. 12, climbing by 2,000 from the downwardly revised total a week earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

The Wine Institute, which represents California wineries, said in a report that U.S. wine exports totaled $805 million in 2025, down 35% from 2024.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Assets under management for the four-year-old ETF totaled $1.9 billion as of Sept. 21, more than tripling from $640 million when MarketWatch spoke to Campbell in February.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

The watchdog's report also notes that equipment losses have totaled $3.7bn, with other $7.4bn in other expenditures.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

At the fairgrounds later that night the ticketmen counted their sales and found that for that single day, July 4, paid attendance had totaled 283,273—far greater than the entire first week of the fair.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

In the 10 months preceding the war, Iran's trade with the UAE totalled $21 billion according to official Iranian figures.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 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 missile business for U.S. prime contractors totalled about $30 billion in 2025, per Lockheed Martin.

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

In the last week of May rains were frequent, and the precipitation totalled 2.09 inches.

From Field Study of Kansas Ant-Eating Frog by Henry S. Fitch

UC’s fall 2025 enrollment records list 0.3% of students as transgender men, 0.2% as transgender women and 1.7% as nonbinary, totaling about 2.2% of students.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

Starting Monday, Carney hosts an investment summit that officials have likened to a matchmaking exercise, pairing companies pitching projects with some of the world’s top asset managers responsible for assets totaling over $100 trillion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

His state financial disclosure for 2001 listed assets totaling no more than $170,000, a ProPublica and Tribune analysis found.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026

Dixon said Advent’s global reach, with assets under management totaling $94 billion, allowed it to build a pipeline of opportunities that it typically worked on for up to 18 months before closing a transaction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 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

He played 14 games in the Premier League totalling 703 minutes, scoring only three goals at a rate of one every 234 minutes.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

More than 60% — totalling an estimated 3,633 homeless people — live within a mile of downtown venues and face possible expulsion, the report said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Before the war, trade between Kuwait and Iran was robust, totalling roughly $300 million in 2024, according to Kuwaiti media citing the two countries' joint chamber of commerce.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

In December, the IDAE, Spain's Institute for the Diversification and Saving of Energy, awarded €827m in EU funds to 133 energy storage projects totalling 2,400MW.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

There are two rewards privately offered, totalling £3,000—which is of more interest to Mr. Alden than to the rest of us—and M. Duquesne is advised this morning that his Chief is coming over at once.

From The Sins of Séverac Bablon by Sax Rohmer




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