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 Associated Press called the passage of Proposition 50—which will allow a new, gerrymandered congressional district map to be implemented through 2030—as soon as the polls closed, before votes were officially tallied. Solcyré Burga, Time, 5 Nov. 2025 Net losses tallied $34 million. Evan Clark, Footwear News, 4 Nov. 2025 On Sunday, Christian McCaffrey tallied 106 yards on 28 carries. Charlotte Carroll, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025 However, with the emergence of freshman Vernell Brown III, who didn’t play Saturday due to a shoulder injury, and Dallas Wilson, who left with an injury in the first half, Wilson III had only tallied 118 yards this year. Noah White, Miami Herald, 2 Nov. 2025 Before seeing his ankle turn into a pretzel, the rookie tallied 617 total yards and seven TDs. Kevin Cusick, Twin Cities, 29 Oct. 2025 And there's a question about whether October's job growth will be tallied at all. Scott Horsley, NPR, 29 Oct. 2025 The 24-year-old has never tallied 1,000 yards on the ground since entering the league as a second-round pick back in 2022, coming close with 994 yards in 2023. Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025 Canada has tallied more than 5,000 cases this year, more than twice as many as the country has recorded in the past 25 years combined. Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tallied
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  • Morelli also corresponded with the man obtaining the videos for him and asked that the torture of the animals be prolonged in subsequent videos, according to a copy of the indictment filed in the case and obtained by PEOPLE.
    Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
  • For this study, researchers analyzed data from 770 young, healthy adults to examine how certain aspects of their health and performance corresponded to different attributes of their sleep.
    Emma Loewe, Outside, 15 Oct. 2025
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  • Kirill Kaprizov, who showed his frustration after Anthony Mantha’s empty-net goal by shooting the puck against the boards and then removing his number from the board that listed media requests following the game, scored the lone goal for Minnesota.
    Michael Russo, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Tyler Johnston with the Cougars scored a running touchdown with 18 seconds left in the game.
    Hannah Cordova, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Oct. 2025
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  • Xi’s and Lee’s banter coincided with hints of warming relations between the two Asian nations.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2025
  • During his tumultuous decade as part of the Disney empire, which coincided with the rise in Marvel’s Avengers cinematic universe as a box office juggernaut, Perlmutter famously was at odds with the studio’s creative team.
    Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 3 Nov. 2025
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  • Dassey’s conviction was overturned in August 2016, and a judge agreed in a June 2017 panel that his confession had been illegally obtained and that he should be released or retried within 90 days unless the case was further appealed.
    Nicole Briese, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
  • In a very rare and likely precedent-setting agreement, the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) Boston has agreed to return two works from 1857 by the Black potter David Drake, who made his ambitious jars while enslaved, to his present-day descendants.
    Jori Finkel, CNN Money, 30 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
  • 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
  • Folsom Boulevard remained closed Monday morning as crews checked for hot spots, Nunez said.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Even the most cautious of home cooks who have checked their glassware and oven temperatures can still manage to shatter a glass bowl or pan.
    Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2025

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