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
“An individual’s medical history, condition upon entering custody, and the totality of circumstances surrounding their incarceration must also be considered.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
In Spain, totality occurred while the setting Sun was already close to the horizon.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
A tavern’s open door to my right revealed a line of patrons perched atop barstools, their backs to the open door, watching a TV showing the eclipse nearing totality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The valley was enclosing this totality, like the mind holding all thoughts together in a single moment.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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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 William Minto
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