tallied

Definition of talliednext
past tense of tally
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as in scored
to gain (as points or runs in a game) as credit towards one's total number of points our team tallied four touchdowns and gained a total of 435 yards last game

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Recent Examples of tallied Dawson Griffin had 14 points, 4 rebounds and 4 blocks, and Wilson Reid tallied 8 points and 5 rebounds for the Yellowjackets, who've won 13 of their past 14 games. Erick Taylor, Arkansas Online, 8 Jan. 2026 Cherry tallied five points in the opening stanza, drilling a last-second three-pointer as the Lancers closed the frame with a 13-7 lead. Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 7 Jan. 2026 The City of Detroit saw significant drops in the numbers of homicides and other violent crimes during 2025, based on the crime statistics that are tallied in keeping with Michigan State Police and FBI criteria. Paula Wethington, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026 Her sister, Layken, tallied 16 points and eight rebounds as the Celtics bounced back from Friday’s 54-49 loss to Green Bay’s Notre Dame Academy in the Grow the Game showcase at Glenbard West. Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026 Colorado homeowners’ total savings from a spate of property tax changes in recent years are expected to eclipse $1 billion soon — money that has and will stay in owners’ pockets, but with an effect on local services that is still being tallied. Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 6 Jan. 2026 The Sun Sentinel has tallied them all up in an easy-to-read format below. Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2026 Responses were tallied and put in a scoring system that included data from the last three years, with an emphasis on newer data, according to Forbes. Idaho Statesman, 11 Nov. 2025 Their results, published last year in Nature, suggested that the average tropical cyclone generated between seven and eleven thousand excess deaths, up to fifteen years after the storm—three hundred times as many as NOAA had tallied. Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tallied
Verb
  • The younger Jackson told me that Greene had chatted with his father during his swearing-in, and the two subsequently corresponded.
    Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The team only used each frog once, and paired them with the hornet species that corresponded to their size.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 2025
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  • Before being subbed out for his last break of the game, Antetokounmpo scored or assisted on all 10 points the Bucks scored in the first three minutes and 45 seconds of the final quarter.
    Eric Nehm, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Nikola Jovic and Simone Fontecchio each scored 10, and Davion Mitchell added five rebounds, five assists and three steals.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 8 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • That usage earlier in the season coincided with injuries to Martin Odegaard and Martinelli.
    Art de Roché, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Alcohol metabolism coincided with a major global climate disruption that fragmented East African forest ecosystems and left food scarce.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Leaders in Congress agreed and sent out armadas of patriot privateers to do just that, plundering British shipping around the Atlantic rim and forcing Royal Navy warships to redeploy to convoy duty.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Advertisement In April 2021, Min Aung Hlaing personally agreed at an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting to the Five Point Consensus intended to end the bloodshed and open a path toward dialogue.
    Kim Aris, Time, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The famous Stanford Prison Experiment by Zimbardo revealed how quickly people conformed to roles of power or submission, often at the expense of empathy and fairness.
    Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Columbia, Brown, and the University of Pennsylvania have made deals with the Administration to restore their funding, and other universities have conformed to what the Administration seems to want in order to avoid becoming targets themselves.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • At the time, Ukraine’s air force consisted largely of Soviet-era aircraft.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Whereas my life at that time consisted purely of practicalities.
    Ayşegül Savaş, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • And aspirations must be checked accordingly.
    Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Vrabel checked those boxes months ago, back when those inside and outside of his locker room began to dare to dream of a Super Bowl run.
    Andrew Callahan, Hartford Courant, 5 Jan. 2026

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