tabulation

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Recent Examples of tabulation In an industry long known for counting the number of people who watch TV shows and the commercials that accompany them, Fox is starting to place new emphasis on a different sort of tabulation. Brian Steinberg, Variety, 7 May 2026 Bay County tends to release results from pre-Election Day voting at the end of the vote tabulation process, while Midland and Saginaw counties release them throughout the night, along with results from in-person Election Day voting. CBS News, 4 May 2026 Bay County tends to release results from pre-Election Day voting at the end of the vote tabulation process, while Midland and Saginaw counties release them throughout the night along with results from in-person Election Day voting. Robert Yoon, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2026 Ballots must arrive back to the city (not the county) by June 2 to count in the tabulation. The Editorial Board, Daily News, 30 Apr. 2026 How could tabulation of the 1890 census possibly be finished before the next census had to be done in 1900? Paul Edward Parker, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026 Even at that young age, Alexander learned the importance of a fair and efficient tabulation process. Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026 Many justices voiced concerns about a Mississippi law being challenged by the RNC for allowing tabulation of absentee ballots that arrive as late as five days after polls close. Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 23 Mar. 2026 The troubling tabulation comes as Hollywood seeks to turn the page from a gut-punching year that included the Los Angeles wildfires, ongoing declines of local film and television production and the deaths of beloved filmmakers. Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tabulation
Noun
  • There are new reports citing the leaderboard-style enumerations of Challenger, Gray and Christmas, which suggest that U.S. tech layoffs are now at their worst year-to-date point since 2023, with approximately 52,050 job cuts this year 2026, 18,720 of them in March.
    John Werner, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The set of 10 developed as the standard enumeration in the Haggadah, the liturgical text of Passover, which was first compiled in the early centuries of the Common Era and redacted toward the end of the first millennium.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Vine was taken into an ambulance on a stretcher, while Yates, one of the general classification (GC) favourites, remounted his bike to finish the stage despite visible wounds across his face.
    Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 9 May 2026
  • All Charlotte-area counties and most of the mountains are under extreme drought, the next worst classification.
    Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 8 May 2026
Noun
  • Wolfe said the retailer expects to modify its distribution footprint over time to have most of its inventory and processing pass through its most efficient distribution centers.
    Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The first phase of 39 homesites sold out within months, and there has been no inventory since.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Experts say this fluidity could fuel the industry’s aim to expand beyond borders and neat categorization.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 2 May 2026
  • Meryl Streep‘s Miranda Priestly has always resisted easy categorization, as a prickly boss whose foundation is ultimately much more understanding.
    Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 2 May 2026
Noun
  • There’s a risk that boards, and the world in general, are over-indexing on the CEO as the one who is going to make all this happen.
    Diane Brady, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2026
  • China is always a flip of the coin in terms of over- or under-indexing.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 21 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Since the 2000s, researchers have added a new set of tools, including ethnographic in-site analysis, image and video codification techniques, phenomenological interviewing, and big data collecting techniques.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The pillars of Hungarian-style family policy, which Vance repeatedly praised, are nowhere near codification in America.
    Idrees Kahloon, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2026

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“Tabulation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tabulation. Accessed 13 May. 2026.

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