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The Chargers’ offense, already weakened by a series of injuries to its offensive line and receiving corps, struggled mightily, recording their second-lowest output of the season at 259 total yards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026
“Wherever we see a redesign, we see reduction or total elimination of fatalities,” said Jessica Wineberg, coordinator of Milwaukee’s Vision Zero program, a traffic-safety plan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
The findings were also consistent when differences in total calorie intake were considered.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
The United States consumes 3.9 million barrels of diesel a day, whereas the accord with Moscow initially concerns 2.22 million barrels total -- barely enough for half a day of US consumption.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026
JonPaul plays football, basketball and baseball and is roughly the size of a half-ton Chevy pickup, but he’s a total wuss about his health.
From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen
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The current programme totals around $7 billion over three years, with the Fund reaching an agreement this month to release a $1.2 billion tranche.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
Meanwhile, at the high end: Sweetgreen is clarifying pricing when customers create their own bowls or salads to avoid surprising people with big totals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Crossings are more common during warmer weather and when there are calmer sea conditions, with the highest monthly totals typically between June and September.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
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
He went through the totals again, double-checking, making sure he hadn’t screwed up.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
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Across the company, cash additions to property and equipment totaled $35.8 billion, compared with $17.1 billion a year earlier.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
U.S. margin debt totaled $1.45 trillion in August, according to Finra data, near the record of $1.5 trillion earlier this summer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
These funds provide retirement benefits to more than 750,000 people, and their assets under management totaled $330 billion at the end of August.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
Trading volume totaled $249 billion between August 2025 and July 2026, according to Kalshi and Polymarket data analyzed by Pew Research Center.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
At the time, the reparations totaled about $32 billion.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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Commercial income from sponsors totalled £949.94m in the seasons from 2009-10 to 2017-18.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
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
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
Foreign arrival numbers into the country have broken records each year, and totalled 97 million in 2025.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
I need hardly say that no harm whatever was done to the receipts, which totalled up to 40,000 dollars more than any of the preceding Festivals had brought.
From The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 by James H. Mapleson
Paxton took out mortgages totaling $1.9 million for them, according to legal documents filed with the local county.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
The firm has so far secured commitments totaling $7.5 billion, people familiar with the matter said, and plans to use the capital to invest in roughly 10 late-stage companies over the next two years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
The acquisition included four parcels totaling roughly seven acres and two residences, with the centerpiece being an enormous nine-bedroom waterfront mansion.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
The proposition creates a down payment loan program, totaling up to $25 billion, for middle-income families looking to buy a new home in California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
“He sort of lost some revenue. The Corporation posted second, third, and fourth quarter losses totaling around forty billion? So, you know, they had to make some sacrifices, let some workers go.”
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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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
A gold panner caught illegally searching for gold in a protected river has been ordered to pay fines and costs totalling more than £4,700, a regulator has said.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 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
Thus, the city of Kamakura presented the curious spectacle of a town filled with well-fed dogs, clothed in tinsel and brocades, and totalling from four to five thousand.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by F. (Frank) Brinkley
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