How to Use the sum of in a Sentence
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Investors had been valuing the company at a discount to the sum of its parts.
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Maureen Kerr,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2026
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And until that is corrected, the on-field results will continue to be less than the sum of the parts.
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Ian Nicholas Quillen,
Forbes.com,
7 July 2026
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Philadelphia, as any local will tell you, has always been more than the sum of its historic landmarks.
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Regan Stephens,
New York Times,
2 July 2026
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But together, the whole is blander than the sum of its parts—a subtle banality humans can often implicitly sense.
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Sam MacDonald,
Scientific American,
29 June 2026
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When both extend simultaneously – as the real bird does during hovering – the lift increase is greater than the sum of the two movements separately, but their pitching effects cancel each other out.
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New Atlas,
2 July 2026
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