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"The total reported burned area therefore underestimates the true area burned," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
A total of 32 cases - comprising 52 offences - related to STLs have been reported to Scotland's prosecution service.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
But Rajadhyaksha emphasized that those unsecured notes represent less than $2 billion of CoreWeave’s roughly $35 billion total debt stack.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 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
So there are 5 x 4 x 3 ways to arrange them: 60 total.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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Total funding for cybersecurity startups reached $12.7 billion by the end of September, surpassing full-year totals going back to 2020.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Those rainfall totals will increase slightly on Tuesday as rain spreads south-east across much of England and Wales.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 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
Garreaud said precipitation totals reached levels "rarely seen in the otherwise extremely arid region."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026
“Here’s what to do. Arrange to have Renault appear before The Vigils. Check up on the sale—get the totals, facts and figures.”
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
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
Disasters costing at least $1 billion totaled more than $115 billion of damages in 2025, nearly four times the annual average in the 1990s, according to a Ceres study.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 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
If we had leveled out with any more speed, or at any steeper an angle, we would have totaled, or even flipped.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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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 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
Sooryavanshi's individual prize money totalled more than £30,000.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
The deficit during the first six months of this fiscal year totalled $1.2 trillion, which is $139 billion less than the same period last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
In the six years 1901-6 the exports of frozen meat from Australia totalled 353,514,135 lb. of beef and 371,692,090 lb. of mutton.
From Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information by Queensland
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 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
Flu deaths among children age 6 months to 17 years hit their highest level in more than a decade during the season that ended last year, totaling 297, before declining in 2025-26.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
In June, the board approved three other seismic-risk reconstructions totaling $496.9 million: Normandie Avenue Elementary and 107th Street Elementary — both in South L.A. — and Narbonne High School in the Harbor area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
My brain is humming like a cash register, totaling it up, making change.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
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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
The port’s record September — totalling 1,042,652 containers — also represents the most volume ever moved through any port in the Western Hemisphere.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 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
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
The last count for this Association's membership made last week shows the Association has 575 paid members, plus 20 subscribers and one foreign exchange membership, totalling 596.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950 by Northern Nut Growers Association
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