as in to classify
to arrange information in an organized way so that it can be studied, recorded, etc.
Officials tabulated the scores. A machine is used to tabulate the votes.
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Recent Examples of tabulate
State officials delivered a ballot to every registered voter and implemented elaborate safety protocols before votes were tabulated.
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Mary Ellen Klas, Twin Cities, 21 Aug. 2025
On Monday, President Trump made numerous false claims about elections, and indicated his administration was drafting an executive order that would attempt to ban mail-in voting as well as the machines local election officials use to tabulate ballots.
—Miles Parks, NPR, 20 Aug. 2025
Carrying out the 2026 midterm election without mail-in absentee voting or vote tabulating machines would likely extend the time needed to count votes by weeks, said Don Millis, a Republican member of the Wisconsin Elections Commission.
—Molly Beck, jsonline.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Election results in Arizona are unofficial until local officials have tabulated and canvassed the results.
—Maritza Dominguez, AZCentral.com, 7 Aug. 2025
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Mary Ellen Klas, Twin Cities, 21 Aug. 2025
On Monday, President Trump made numerous false claims about elections, and indicated his administration was drafting an executive order that would attempt to ban mail-in voting as well as the machines local election officials use to tabulate ballots.
—Miles Parks, NPR, 20 Aug. 2025
Carrying out the 2026 midterm election without mail-in absentee voting or vote tabulating machines would likely extend the time needed to count votes by weeks, said Don Millis, a Republican member of the Wisconsin Elections Commission.
—Molly Beck, jsonline.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Election results in Arizona are unofficial until local officials have tabulated and canvassed the results.
—Maritza Dominguez, AZCentral.com, 7 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tabulate
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What Happens Next FDA inspectors will classify the recall one of three hazard levels, from the lowest risk, Class III, to the highest, Class I.—
News Editor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 2025
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Dividing her time between London and Los Angeles, Porras-Kim has historically examined the methods institutions use to classify, conserve, and interpret items in their collections, focusing on objects and forms of knowledge that have been separated from their original contexts.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
8 Oct. 2025
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Scientists are advancing the use of muon scattering tomography to analyze nuclear fuel debris from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi accident.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Oct. 2025
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Barry regularly meets with economists from major banks to analyze data and metrics related to consumer health and then translates those insights into action.—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
15 Oct. 2025
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Rotating personnel has certainly not helped, but the international break will have allowed Slot to assess where his side can improve defensively.—
Mark Carey,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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As business leaders and economists begin to take concerns of an AI bubble more seriously, the proliferation of loose internet bots has become more alarming because of their potential to distort data key to assessing the sustainability and growth of emerging tech companies.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
15 Oct. 2025
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In a feat of logistics, the production miraculously arranged the shooting schedule so that every principal actor’s final scene on the show was also their last day of filming — something the Duffers have been freshly reliving again and again in the edit bay.—
Kate Aurthur,
Variety,
15 Oct. 2025
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However, for years, police suspected that Charles arranged the murder of Markel.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
15 Oct. 2025
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“Tabulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tabulate. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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