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totality

[toh-tal-i-tee] / toʊˈtæl ɪ ti /


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The ruling requires federal immigration agents to consider the totality of the circumstances known to them before arresting someone without a warrant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

In Spain, totality occurred while the setting Sun was already close to the horizon.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

The length of the totality on land will make next year's eclipse remarkable, says Dr Ed Bloomer, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

The totality zone in Spain covers a year-round population of 16 million people, where the rare phenomenon is delivering an unexpected economic windfall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Similarly, the mega-Ninos were but one of many stresses on Andean civilizations at the time, stresses that in their totality neither Wari nor Tiwanaku had the political resources to survive.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

The moon was bathed in the reflected red and orange hues of Earth’s sunsets and sunrises for about 1 1/2 hours, one of the longest totalities of the decade.

From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2022

Essentially, we need to understand that mass immunity is not a matter of totalities; rather, it is a continuum that stretches from "can't ever be infected" to "won't be hospitalized or will die if infected."

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2020

The longest totalities provide about six minutes of being in the complete shadow of the moon.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2017

The paranoid outlook can be internally logical, never trivializing, and capable of explaining any or all observed phenomena as aspects of larger, symmetrical totalities.

From Slate ● May 31, 2017

We shall call this the ‘vicious-circle principle,’ because it enables us to avoid the vicious circles involved in the assumption of illegitimate totalities.

From The philosophy of B*rtr*nd R*ss*ll by Various




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