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 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 Antetokounmpo tallied just one assist, but the attention paid to him by the Mavericks helped open up the Bucks’ shooters, who knocked down five of their nine fourth-quarter 3-point attempts. Eric Nehm, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2025 As of last month, Canada had tallied more than 5,000 cases for the year — more than twice as many as the country has recorded in the past 25 years combined. Nadia Kounang, CNN Money, 10 Nov. 2025 Fears shot 0 of 7 from the field, scoring four points on six free-throw attempts, but tallied nine assists. Matt Byrne, Arkansas Online, 9 Nov. 2025 Schyler Dethorne raced 68-yards for a TD and Belton tallied scoring runs of six and 52-yards, as Alvarado held a 28-3 lead after the opening quarter. Mike Waters, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Nov. 2025 Marshall rushed for 150 yards and a touchdown and tallied two tackles for loss and an interception on defense to lead Central to a 29-18 victory over visiting Bardstown. Rich Barak, Louisville Courier Journal, 7 Nov. 2025 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
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Verb
  • 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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  • 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
  • But their arrival has coincided with a spike in housing prices, which has squeezed many locals out of the market.
    Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The rapper’s homecoming coincided with Montana’s 41st birthday.
    Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 9 Nov. 2025
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
  • Pike subtly checked from a 10-yard hitch route to a go route for receiver Binns, who streaked down the sideline against press coverage to haul in a diving, game-winning touchdown in the back corner of the end zone.
    The Athletic College Football Staff, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Outside, Gray stopped and lit a cigarette while Rockett checked the bus schedule again.
    Dan Horn, Cincinnati Enquirer, 9 Nov. 2025

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