tallied

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 The Bengals punted on each of their final eight full possessions, only mustered multiple first downs on a drive once, and tallied just five total. Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2025 Ava Anderson and Kaylee Master tallied a hat trick each for Watertown in a 12-1 Middlesex League rout of Melrose. Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 30 Sep. 2025 In 655 plate appearances, Riley Greene has hit 36 long balls (10th in MLB), tallied 111 RBIs (7th in MLB) and scored 84 runs. Data Skrive, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025 The San Diego Union-Tribune tallied every settlement and judgment the county paid out between January 2020 and May 2025 totaling $25,000 or more, the threshold that requires the Board of Supervisors to sign off on a payout. Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025 Using data from October 2024 orders, Instacart tallied candy preferences by state and found Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups topped the list for America’s favorite Halloween candy, with Peanut M&M’s and M&M’s rounding out the top three. Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 23 Sep. 2025 The defense has held its opponent below 20 points in 11 of 16 games thus far, and five Chargers have tallied at least five sacks this season. Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025 He's tallied 12 points in 37 games this season. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025 Samson Johnson added 10 points inside with four assists, three rebounds, two blocks and two assists, and Hassan Diarra tallied nine assists – his sixth-straight game with seven or more – to only one turnover. Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 1 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tallied
Verb
  • To calculate the scattering amplitude for a collision of n particles, physicists would have to add up many BCFW terms — and each of those terms corresponded to a region of the positive Grassmannian in n dimensions.
    Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 Oct. 2025
  • That corresponded to a 68% to 86% reduction in the probability of brain injury.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 23 Sep. 2025
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  • Evans scored 21 points in 26 minutes off Las Vegas’ bench to fuel the Aces to a 89-86 second-half comeback against the Phoenix Mercury for a 1-0 series lead.
    Ben Pickman, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Each restaurant in Jefferson County is scored out of a possible 100 points.
    Gege Reed, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The star wide receiver’s tough night coincided with a heated conversation with head coach Zac Taylor.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2025
  • In contrast, spending less overall was higher for Democratic respondents, which coincided with their plans to spend less on apparel.
    Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Officials met with family members Thursday and agreed to start using heavy machinery to remove the debris and recover the bodies.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Local officials have now met with family members and agreed to begin using machinery to move the rubble and start recovering bodies.
    Kirsty Hatcher, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 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
  • The rest, the court wrote, consisted mostly of predictions, speculation, or opinion — or was substantially true.
    Stephen L. Carter, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The rest, the court wrote, consisted mostly of predictions, speculation, or opinion — or was substantially true.
    Stephen L. Carter, Twin Cities, 18 Sep. 2025

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