summed

past tense of sum

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of summed Kaia Wilson once summed it up perfectly with the wise words of Stevie Nicks. — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2026 Fox praised the clean space and cold beer, while Wolski summed it up best with a laugh. — Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 15 Sep. 2026 As for keeping the focus on the main thing this week, the Ole Miss coach summed it up in the most logical way for his players that could be sucked into the off-field distractions this week. — Trey Wallace Outkick, FOXNews.com, 14 Sep. 2026 All this data was normalized and summed to calculate a score out of 100 for each destination. — Kristine Hansen, Travel + Leisure, 31 Aug. 2026 Allocations for years 1 through 5 were summed, representing 2021 through 2025. — Aneri Pattani — Kff Health News, STAT, 27 Aug. 2026 Perhaps Wrexham chief executive Michael Williamson summed things up best shortly before ringing the Nasdaq bell in Times Square to launch both the day’s trading on the world’s second biggest stock exchange and the club’s new home shirt. — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026 Because colonization can precede infection, one patient may count as both a screening case and, later, a clinical case, so the two totals overlap and cannot be summed. — John Drake, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026 Analysts at Deutsche Bank summed it up nicely in a June 11 note to clients. — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 21 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for summed
Verb
  • Jose Ramirez had two hits and Nathaniel Lowe added an RBI double in the second inning for the Guardians, who have won five of their last six playoff games since trailing the Chicago White Sox 2-0 in their AL division series.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The Brewers took a 5-4 lead on Garrett Mitchell’s solo home run in the sixth inning and added an insurance run in the ninth on Hamilton’s bomb.
    — Greg Rosenstein, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • For example, a family of four with $1,000 in net monthly income would have $300 subtracted from the new $1,023 maximum, leaving the household with $723 in monthly SNAP benefits.
    — Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Sep. 2026
  • The amount is subtracted from their taxable estate, and the assets go to the charity — free of the income taxes that would otherwise be paid by the individual who inherits the estate.
    — Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Comparing households aged 72 and older in 2022 with those aged 75 and older in 2025, Maggiulli calculated a smaller—but still substantial—21% increase.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
  • It is calculated as a weighted average of atomic clocks worldwide and is communicated by BIPM, the official source for UTC.
    — Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Since rates are computed by dividing the number of cases by the population at risk in a specified time period, then by definition, if the number of cases stays the same but the size of the denominator shrinks, the rates will be higher.
    — Nancy Krieger, STAT, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Every decision—what to recommend, what to rank, what to suppress—is computed for that one customer at that one moment.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2026

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“Summed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/summed. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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