tabulating

verb

present participle of tabulate
as in classifying
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 tabulating Voters will be given a ballot, complete it in person, and then insert it into a tabulating machine. — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 23 Sep. 2026 What turned out to be a razor-thin contest wasn’t called by the Associated Press until early Wednesday morning, after a delay in tabulating votes from Milwaukee. — Chantelle Lee, Time, 12 Aug. 2026 The recount board reconvened Thursday morning, July 9, to begin tabulating runoff Election Day results. — Angela George, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 8 July 2026 Legislators passed a law two years ago that set that deadline, but then failed to find a replacement for tabulating votes. — ABC News, 23 June 2026 That’s 10 years of farming around idle pump jacks and tabulating acres damaged by fluid leaks. — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2026 When county workers finished tabulating votes on election night, the gap between the two was eight percentage points. — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026 But voters and residents are not tabulating a national income accounting exercise when a project appears down the road. — James Broughel, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026 This story has been updated to reflect what lawmakers must do to comply with a law doing away with QR codes as the method of tabulating votes. — Caleb Groves, AJC.com, 14 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tabulating
  1. classifying
  2. analyzing
  3. assessing
  4. arranging
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  • Below, members of Forbes Technology Council share strategies for classifying large volumes of unstructured data while keeping the manual workload manageable.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Zema has proposed classifying major criminal factions as terrorist organizations.
    — Katie Angell Britannica Editors Oct. 2, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of classifying
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  • Stolkier and his colleagues started analyzing their brain scan data to find out why.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Now the researchers working along SR 62 plan to go a step further by analyzing the location and DNA of dozens of poop samples for each species, before the crossings are built and after.
    — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of analyzing
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  • Argentina’s new Agency for Citizenship by Investment Programs will be the government office in charge of assessing applications for the new passport scheme.
    — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The airline said crews were assessing the aircraft and customers were being accommodated.
    — Austin Turner, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of assessing
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  • Rossi interpreted the idea of the piazza quite literally, arranging the service’s pieces like structures around a public square.
    — Robb Report, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2026
  • In January 2026, the company launched Beyond Borders, an employee network where international staff can help one another navigate the hurdles of settling in, such as finding a doctor, navigating an insurance policy document, or arranging childcare.
    — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of arranging

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“Tabulating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tabulating. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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