totality
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“The reality is, you have to look at the totality here, not a single moment,” she said.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
Avatar Musk, meant to appear like AI slop and spouting commentary culled from the totality of his recorded interviews, is pretty gimmicky.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
The moon will be near its closest point to earth, resulting in unusually long periods of totality over North Africa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
In Spain, totality occurred while the setting Sun was already close to the horizon.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Worst of all, he remembered the anger and shock on Koffi's face when she’d understood the totality of his betrayal.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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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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