as in total
a complete amount of something
The grand total of the proceeds from the fund-raiser was over $100,000.
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Recent Examples of grand total
Smith said after talking to Gregg, Wheels Up reduced the price to $850, but storage fees for having the car since April 1 bring the grand total to at least $2,600.
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Liz Crawford, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
According to TickPick, the priciest purchase on their platform so far was for three tickets in Section 114, Row T, costing $7,859 per ticket — a grand total of $23,576.
—Cole Sullivan, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
Before the trade deadline, Miller had played a grand total of 179 minutes on an NBA court over nearly three seasons with the Minnesota Timberwolves.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026
This loadout gives it a total of 32 Xe2-HPG cores and a grand total of 4,096 pixel shaders.
—Michael Justin Allen Sexton, PC Magazine, 25 Mar. 2026
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Liz Crawford, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
According to TickPick, the priciest purchase on their platform so far was for three tickets in Section 114, Row T, costing $7,859 per ticket — a grand total of $23,576.
—Cole Sullivan, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
Before the trade deadline, Miller had played a grand total of 179 minutes on an NBA court over nearly three seasons with the Minnesota Timberwolves.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026
This loadout gives it a total of 32 Xe2-HPG cores and a grand total of 4,096 pixel shaders.
—Michael Justin Allen Sexton, PC Magazine, 25 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grand total
Noun
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Mehdi Bostanchi owns a ventilation and air conditioning factory, and a second producing household fans, with a total of more than 1,130 employees.—
Amir-Hussein Radjy,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2026
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As part of his plea agreements, Jones agreed to give up a total of $73,000 and, at sentencing, could be ordered to pay additional sums as restitution.—
Michael R. Sisak,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Apr. 2026
Noun
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His leadership of Amazon’s cloud business has coincided with the AI boom and the remarkable scramble among cloud providers, including Microsoft, Google, and Oracle, to spend eye-popping sums building data centers and other AI infrastructure.—
Alexei Oreskovic,
Fortune,
29 Apr. 2026
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Paying upfront huge sums of money for an A-lister to do a show or movie at a streamer, that looks like success regardless of whether anybody showed up to actually watch it, but that doesn’t make sense in terms of how success has traditionally been understood.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026
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The speed and totality with which this happened shocked everyone except Mother, who said with pride that this aggression was what being a man meant.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Apr. 2026
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Paradoxically, his quest for totality entailed a diminishment—of size, of scale, of material.—
Ara H. Merjian,
ARTnews.com,
16 Apr. 2026
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This ingredient outmasses the full sum total of all normal matter by about a 5-to-1 ratio, clumps and clusters like (slow-moving) matter does, but doesn’t interact with normal matter or light in any measurable way.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
21 Apr. 2026
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In sum total, almost 14 percent of the total subscriber pool here between HBO Max and Paramount+ already subscribes to both services.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Mar. 2026
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The analysis of data from nine of the largest Connecticut cities showed that census tracts where the most tows occurred from 2022 to 2024 tended to have larger populations of renters, larger Black and Hispanic populations and much higher rates of poverty than the state as a whole.—
Ginny Monk,
ProPublica,
27 Apr. 2026
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Still, his season on the whole was underwhelming, finishing with just 28 points, his lowest since the 56-game 2020-21 season.—
Max Bultman,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
Noun
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To apply with your hands, dispense two dropper fulls, rub the palms of your hands together, and then evenly rub into your face and neck—just don’t forget to wash your hands when you’re done.—
Jenny Berg,
Vogue,
2 June 2025
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All sizes will be available, including twins from $99, fulls ($149), queens ($199) and kings ($299).—
Don Maines,
Houston Chronicle,
27 Feb. 2020
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“Grand total.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grand%20total. Accessed 4 May. 2026.
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