tabulation

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Recent Examples of tabulation 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 The company in March Nielsen delayed the release of the February results of its popular tabulation after some clients became alarmed by a downturn in streaming audiences following a decision by the measurement giant to add new data to its mix. Brian Steinberg, Variety, 27 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 Last November, Faraj spoke before the Wayne County Board of Canvassers about a 37-vote discrepancy following the tabulation of ballots on election night. Elaine Rojas-Castillo, CBS News, 10 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 The extended tabulation process, marked by disputes among candidates and election authorities, fueled public distrust and raised concerns about the integrity of Honduras’s electoral system. Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 25 Dec. 2025
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
  • Wealthy nations including Canada, Australia, and several countries in the EU have this classification.
    Tristan Bove, Fortune, 3 May 2026
  • Both classifications require a valid motorcycle license for street operation, as well as DMV registration, license plate, insurance, and full motorcycle equipment, according to prosecutors.
    Julie Sharp, CBS News, 2 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
  • The Biden administration also moved to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule III drug, though the rule was not finalized and the drug remained at the most severe categorization.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The crescendos of Tines’s operatic bass-baritone bleed through the entirety of the Geffen like thunder, concretizing the space into a heartbeat of resistance that reanimates the categorization of witness.
    Horace D. Ballard, Artforum, 22 Apr. 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 4 May. 2026.

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