tabulation

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Recent Examples of tabulation 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 Nielsen in recent weeks has faced industry pushback after some clients became alarmed by a downturn in streaming audiences as displayed in a monthly tabulation of viewer activity following a decision by Nielsen to add new data to its mix. Brian Steinberg, Variety, 13 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 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
  • This year alone, several major medical organizations have called for a reevaluation of cannabis’ classification as a Schedule I drug, arguing that the evidence for its medical use can no longer be ignored.
    Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Money, 19 Apr. 2026
  • His presentation is classification run amok in which colors are anthropomorphized, and the world is recast as a kind of color war.
    Adam Moss, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Unlike previous versions that simply answered questions, these agents are now capable of executing transactions and managing inventory autonomously.
    Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • In its place is a market where buyers, armed with inventory and leverage, are finally calling the shots.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 21 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
  • China is always a flip of the coin in terms of over- or under-indexing.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 21 Apr. 2026
  • 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
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 27 Apr. 2026.

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