tabulation

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Recent Examples of tabulation 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 That includes ballot processing, signature verification, tabulation, post‑election audits and certification of results. Tom Coulter, USA Today, 21 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 Nielsen’s new out-of-home tabulation won’t be considered part of its bedrock TV ratings — at least, not right away. Brian Steinberg, Variety, 3 Feb. 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 Research shows the cost, time demands and risk of human error make hand-counting far less reliable than machine tabulation, and fewer than 1% of Americans live in jurisdictions with the manual process. Tracey McManus The Dallas Morning News, Arkansas Online, 7 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tabulation
Noun
  • 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
  • Anything that was anti-Jewish—a story about exclusion, an obstacle that hadn’t come down, a disapproving enumeration of supposedly Jewish traits—was possibly more fascinating.
    Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • It’s well established in federal law that tribal citizenship is a political classification, not a racial one.
    Nora Mabie, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The twisty story that unfolds next is a rare example of a thriller that has earned its classification.
    Sam Reed, Glamour, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • By offering a comprehensive suite of tools that manage everything from inventory and website design to global shipping logistics, Shopify allows founders to bypass the need for expensive web developers.
    William Jones, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2026
  • According to the company, the layouts within the fulfillment center are optimized for high-SKU density, and are designed to enable rapid picking across deep garment inventories and high-volume footwear assortments.
    Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 7 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • To this day, her work resists categorization.
    Patricia Zohn, Air Mail, 28 Mar. 2026
  • The American playwright, director and author has spent years developing a body of work that refuses easy categorization, blending psychological tension, live experimental music, philosophy and raw urban storytelling into something that feels genuinely its own.
    Ascend Agency, New York Daily News, 12 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • During this time, teams check for indexing or crawl anomalies, examine sudden traffic shifts by landing page, and review performance across query groups.
    Jason Phillips, jsonline.com, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Elena Patel, co-director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, said another argument against indexing capital gains is that while assets would be adjusted for inflation, liabilities and debt would not be.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • In the Mishna, the codification of Jewish oral laws, rabbis debated the number of plagues—Rabbi Akiva considered there to have been 50 plagues in Egypt and 250 at the Red Sea.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 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 Apr. 2026.

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