totality
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The San Diego district attorney’s office said it took the totality of evidence into consideration when reaching a plea deal with Rylaarsdam, as well as input from the victim’s family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
While the UK will only see a partial eclipse, observers in Greenland, Iceland, northern Spain and parts of the Arctic Ocean will experience totality.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
The transformer does all of that work repeatedly against a vast “context,” or the totality of the information a model can handle at one time in working memory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
“When you actually look at the totality of what’s being put forward, we are seeing a total gutting of a resource base,” she told NOTUS.
From Slate ● May 2, 2026
Wittgenstein wrote in the Tractatus that ‘The world is the totality of facts, not of things.’
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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
A collective name may be used as a general name when it is extended on the ground of what is common to all such totalities as it designates.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William