tabulation

noun

Definition of tabulationnext
as in enumeration

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Recent Examples of tabulation The tabulation is already higher than Moody’s last estimate of the war’s cost to households. — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 1 July 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 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 Lawmakers passed legislation two years ago requiring the state to move away from QR-code vote tabulation by July 2026. — Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 18 June 2026 In the past, elections office staff extracted ballots from envelopes using a machine, which occasionally cut into ballots and required them to be duplicated because the damage would interfere with tabulation. — Sacbee.com, 11 June 2026 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 In a ruling with direct bearing on the midterm elections, the Supreme Court on Monday narrowly upheld a Mississippi law allowing tabulation of late-arriving mail-in ballots so long as they were postmarked by Election Day. — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 29 June 2026 The Big Ten and SEC also netted 83% of five-star athletes and 65% of four-star athletes in December in LeRoy’s tabulation for the Seton Hall Law Review. — Teresa M. Walker, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tabulation
  1. enumeration
  2. classification
  3. inventory
  4. categorization
  5. indexing
  6. codification
Noun
  • Females, minors &c are excluded from the polls, but are included in the enumeration of persons on whom representation is apportioned.
    — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
  • 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
Definition of enumeration
Noun
  • Clinch County has won six football state championships this century, all in Class A, the Georgia High School Association’s classification for the smallest schools.
    — Todd Holcomb, AJC.com, 6 July 2026
  • Elsewhere, general classification contenders Juan Ayuso (Lidl-Trek), Remco Evenepoel and Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe) and Paul Seixas (Decathlon CMA CGM) all produced good performances to stay within 40 seconds of the leading pair.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 4 July 2026
Definition of classification
Noun
  • Buyers are starting to get more leverage in the market, as inventory increases and homes sit for longer.
    — Diana Olick, CNBC, 8 July 2026
  • That means maintaining an AI inventory, assigning ownership, setting review intervals, monitoring safety and equity metrics and deciding what requires legal, compliance, clinical or patient-safety review.
    — Dr. Alena Fuchs, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
Definition of inventory
Noun
  • The World Health Organization’s definition of adolescence from 10-19 years of age is not a categorization routinely used for surgical decision-making.
    — Kavitha Ranganathan, STAT, 29 June 2026
  • An operations manager pilots expense categorization.
    — Penta Rao Marapatla, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
Definition of categorization
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  • Direct indexing means owning the individual stocks that make up an index, like the S&P 500 or the Russell 1000, rather than buying the index through a mutual fund or ETF.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 1 July 2026
  • There are comments about battery life being worse — but that may be down to indexing as the release is just hours old.
    — David Phelan, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
Definition of indexing
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
Definition of codification

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“Tabulation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tabulation. Accessed 10 Jul. 2026.

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