A History of Short Words

From the New York Times Crossword Puzzle

SUM

Sun, 30 Jun '24
Total
Fri, 19 Apr '24
Put together
Sun, 17 Dec '23
Put together
Sat, 2 Sep '23
Grand total
Sun, 26 Feb '23
Zero-___ game
Sun, 19 Feb '23
Total
Fri, 3 Feb '23
Word with dim
Sat, 21 Jan '23
Aggregate
Sun, 4 Sep '22
"I am," in Latin
Sat, 7 May '22
Total
Thu, 28 Apr '22
Adding purpose?
Wed, 9 Feb '22
45, for each row and column in a sudoku grid
Fri, 4 Feb '22
?, in math
Mon, 15 Nov '21
"Cogito ergo ___"