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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a sum" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a total amount resulting from the addition of two or more numbers or quantities.
Example: "The total cost of the project is a sum of $5,000."
Alternatives: "a total" or "an amount".
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How huge a sum?
The report did not specify a sum.
It gets to be quite a sum.
"It's a sum of its component parts.
"He is preëminently a sum of curiosities.
In my case, a picture is a sum of destructions.
It offers a sum totalling just 50% of development costs.
And yet it has a sum total of zero nominations.
Trump, meanwhile, could hardly have invested such a sum himself.
A picture used to be a sum of additions.
Are we really just a sum of repeating patterns?
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