Examples of tabulate in a Sentence
A machine is used to tabulate the votes.
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Earlier Wednesday morning, about a half dozen election workers were still tabulating more than 50,000 ballots in the county elections office, pizza boxes scattered on nearby tables.
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Sarah Bahari, Dallas Morning News, 4 Mar. 2026
Follow along as the AP tabulates votes and calls races.
—ABC News, 3 Mar. 2026
Any ballot that comes back from one of the 170 voters that the elections office hasn’t been able to contact will be held out and not tabulated to give a voter more time until the March 10 election to receive and submit a new ballot.
—Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 10 Feb. 2026
Votes were tabulated by the accounting firm Lutz and Carr.
—Rob Maaddi, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2026
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Sarah Bahari, Dallas Morning News, 4 Mar. 2026
Follow along as the AP tabulates votes and calls races.
—ABC News, 3 Mar. 2026
Any ballot that comes back from one of the 170 voters that the elections office hasn’t been able to contact will be held out and not tabulated to give a voter more time until the March 10 election to receive and submit a new ballot.
—Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 10 Feb. 2026
Votes were tabulated by the accounting firm Lutz and Carr.
—Rob Maaddi, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2026
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“Tabulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tabulate. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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tabulate
verb
tab·u·late
ˈtab-yə-ˌlāt 
tabulated; tabulating
: to count and record in an orderly way
tabulate votes
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