tabulation

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Recent Examples of tabulation Concerns over California’s vote-counting process have persisted throughout the election cycle, with candidates competing in the state’s primary races raising questions about the pace of ballot tabulation. Kiara Moore, The Washington Examiner, 7 June 2026 With Election Day approaching, the San Joaquin County Registrar of Voters is making final preparations to ensure a smooth tabulation process come Tuesday. Charlie Lapastora, CBS News, 1 June 2026 He is charged with one count of unlawful voting by aliens and one count of the procurement, casting, or tabulation of ballots that are known to be materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent under state law. Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 19 May 2026 The Porter County Election Board worked through some minor kinks with the county’s new voting equipment during the election certification at noon on Friday in the tabulation room of the Elections & Registration Office. Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2026 The candidates and their attorneys asked a federal judge to scrap vote-tabulation machines and order votes to be counted by hand at the precinct level. Shane Harris, The Atlantic, 14 May 2026 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tabulation
Noun
  • The drafts were messy, but, in reality, so, too, were the handwritten ones—their own version of chaos with arrows, enumerations, and strikethroughs.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 May 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • That included the Class 4A semifinals in Gentry’s sophomore season, winning the program’s first league title in her junior season as the program moved up classifications and returning to the postseason, again in Class 5A, this spring.
    Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 7 June 2026
  • This precise atomic state provides alternative structural data for an element that has historically resisted complete physical classification since its initial synthesis eighty-six years ago.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 7 June 2026
Noun
  • The inventory includes everything from miniature robes and special toiletries to a tent where the kiddos can sleep with toys to keep them entertained.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
  • Equipped with dual robotic arms, the robot can autonomously perform tasks such as material handling, shelf picking, inventory replenishment, and internal transportation.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 2 June 2026
Noun
  • Free plans often limit automatic categorization, customization options and available insights.
    Faith Wakefield, USA Today, 3 June 2026
  • And its end use, namely packaging, is in some ways a more obvious categorization.
    Justin Worland, Time, 28 May 2026
Noun
  • Social networks are also spaces where cyberactivism is increasingly present, namely through the indexing of content in information streaming through hashtags.
    Paulo Nuno VicenteAll, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
  • Also, the annual inflation indexing of Social Security benefits is compounded on top of the higher benefit.
    Bob Carlson, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
Noun
  • The codification of what became soccer Public school graduates took their versions of the game with them to the next level.
    Thomas Adam, The Conversation, 29 May 2026
  • Three Americans died in the 1996 incident that led to sanctions and the codification of the trade embargo on Cuba that remains in place today.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 20 May 2026

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“Tabulation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tabulation. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.

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