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summed

verb

Past of sum

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The word "summed" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a verb to indicate the past tense of the verb "sum," meaning to combine (numbers) to make a total. For example: "The data was summed and the total was 15."

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He was brilliant for Roy Hodgson's side in their run to the Europa League final in 2010 – a 20-yard blast in a win over Shakhtar Donetsk summed up how influential Zamora was for them during those heady days – and his form convinced Fabio Capello to give him his first England cap.

Fry summed up her wit and strength: "I don't think she'd mind me calling her the web's No 1 cancer bitch".

Asked why he had been so insistent that he would stay on, Carr said: "[Former chairman of the US federal reserve] Alan Greenspan summed it up best with 'irrational exuberance'".

It summed up every negative stereotype about hardcore gamers, as Cartman and his friends became fat, greasy-haired, acne-ridden slobs as they go through the endless hours of practice necessary to defeat an awesomely powerful player who was ruining the game for everyone.

The reason for the cold shoulder from the US and Europe can be summed up in two words - Vladimir Meciar.

The real purpose of this byelection campaign can be summed up by this YouTube video.

Talking to me this weekend, Pillai summed up how she had broken Modi's law.

As Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie summed it up: "The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete".

In Richard II, Shakespeare referred to it as "this scepter'd isle, this other Eden, demi-paradise, this fortress build by Nature itself", but perhaps what has given the UK its true fertility, particularly in song, is best summed up by that cantankerous cultural figure John Lydon: "Britain is an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration – it makes it a better place".

Spero summed it up herself via an image that recurs across the Codex – a disembodied head with a grotesque phallic tongue protruding from its mouth: the organ of speech envisaged partly as a weapon and partly as a gag.

Miliband struggles on competence – the bungled Manchester speech or the many failures summed up in Fraser Nelson's remark, quoted in Tim Bale's new book on the Labour leader, that Miliband consistently fails to throw a second punch.

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