tabulation

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Recent Examples of tabulation Although Scott's name remained on the ballot due to printing deadlines, election officials previously said any votes cast for him would not be included in the official tabulation. Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 20 May 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 Even at that young age, Alexander learned the importance of a fair and efficient tabulation process. Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 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
  • Rather than a sweeping blockade, the campaign should rely on port-state control, sanctions enforcement, customs law, insurance and classification requirements, environmental protection, safety inspections, and flag-state coordination.
    David A. Deptula, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • County officials noted that while most of those positions were occupied when the reductions were identified, vacancies existed elsewhere in the department within the same classifications.
    Reeti Malhotra, Sacbee.com, 29 May 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
  • Under this categorization, there is now a legal basis for medical patients to travel with qualifying medical marijuana products consistent with the rule, Manzuri said.
    Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026
  • Customer reviews frequently praise Origin’s tracking accuracy compared to competing budgeting apps, though some users report occasional issues with incorrect transaction categorization.
    Amy DeYoung, USA Today, 20 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
  • 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
  • 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

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“Tabulation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tabulation. Accessed 3 Jun. 2026.

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