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Definition of talliesnext
plural of tally
as in counts
a total number obtained or recorded by noting each thing as it was being added the final tally for worshippers at Sunday services was 126

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verb

present tense third-person singular of tally
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as in scores
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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Noun
On an individual level, Mikael Granlund, who powered the Ducks’ overtime win with a hat trick that accounted for all their scoring in Calgary, saw his four-game goal streak conclude with seven tallies on the same night McDavid extended his push to four contests (five goals). Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 29 Mar. 2026 Up 2-0, Michigan extended its lead with second-period tallies from Nick Moldenhauer and Kason Muscutt. Barry Scanlon, Boston Herald, 28 Mar. 2026 Earlier this month, Bianco’s office seized over 1,000 boxes of ballots cast in the November 2025 special election after a local group claimed elections officials had inflated vote tallies, which Riverside County Registrar of Voters Art Tinoco denied. Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 26 Mar. 2026 Large numbers of young voters use California’s same-day registration system to cast ballots that are typically counted after other tallies are completed. ABC News, 23 Mar. 2026 The City of Milwaukee is on pace to have similar homicide numbers to last year, based on year-to-date tallies. Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 21 Mar. 2026 Holloway tallies assists and makes space off the dribble. Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2026 Unofficial tallies have Noonan winning over Moore by nearly double the vote count. Naperville Sun, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2026 No more tiny little pencils – or fudging those tallies. Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2026
Verb
The Jeff Marr Law Firm tallies 183 cases in Oklahoma and other states. J.c. Hallman, Oklahoman, 27 Feb. 2026 According to Michigan Tech, which also tallies snowfall totals, Houghton County in 2023 saw 12 inches of snow in May. Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 10 Feb. 2026 The analysis tallies the annual cost of housing, transportation and other necessities for each of the 50 largest cities by population, drawing from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Federal Reserve and other sources. Jordan Green, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 16 Jan. 2026 Finaret was game to test out the new MAHA guidelines using Masters’ spreadsheet, which tallies up the cost per day of a diet that aims to meet daily recommendations for nutrients like protein, fat, fiber, and calcium. Sarah Todd, STAT, 16 Jan. 2026 The list tallies the top 20 surging Vocaloid tracks on Japan‘s video-sharing platform Niconico Douga by applying Billboard Japan’s proprietary weighting to data such as views, number of creations, comments and likes. Billboard Japan, Billboard, 23 Dec. 2025 Other times, the book sounds like a droning Christmas-card letter, as Sarkozy endlessly tallies his friends and foes. Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2025 The analysis tallies the annual cost of housing, transportation and other necessities for each of the 50 largest cities by population, drawing from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Federal Reserve and other sources. Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 13 Dec. 2025 For its part, DOGE still has a website that tallies its cost-reduction efforts and claims $214 billion in savings. Jason Ma, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tallies
Noun
  • The same jury acquitted Lopez of more than a dozen other charges and hung on five counts of sending harmful material to a minor.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The Census Bureau will collect exact population counts during the next official census in 2030, unless a community requests a special census before then.
    Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 30 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The Miami Herald reached out to the Department of Homeland Security to ask about whether the document corresponds to payments allocated or already disbursed.
    Garrett Shanley, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Using photographs taken by historian and philologist Johan Ludvig Heiberg in 1906, the researchers were able to confirm that the new page corresponds to leaf number 123 of the text.
    News Desk, Artforum, 17 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The director scores easy laughs off of modern-day progressive shibboleths such as gender-fluid pronouns, trigger warnings and Native American land acknowledgments.
    Gustavo Arellano, Houston Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Luka Doncic scores 32 points, but can’t get a clean look on the final shot attempt as the Lakers lose to the Detroit Pistons 113-110.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Leverkusen’s admiration for Hurzeler coincides with doubts about the viability of his longevity at the Amex Stadium after fierce criticism from sections of the fanbase.
    Andy Naylor, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2026
  • For Bunny World Foundation — the Southland’s most active rabbit rescue organization — spring is the worst time of year, as the post-Easter dumping phenomenon coincides with rabbits’ natural breeding season to create an overwhelming influx of unwanted bunnies.
    City News Service, Daily News, 30 Mar. 2026
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  • The strategy conforms to Avylo's mission of ensuring precision indoor environments are affordable and convenient to contemporary homes.
    Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026
  • This mattress uses pressure-relieving memory foam that conforms to the body and helps circulation.
    Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 11 Mar. 2026
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  • Often, the inspector uncovers some items that must be repaired, and as part of the contract, the seller agrees.
    Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Still, not every business leader agrees.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Events like this also provide a way to bring the increasingly popular active-travel segment into the safari world, which, despite its rugged reputation, consists largely of being ferried about in Land Cruisers.
    Tom Vanderbilt, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The president is seeking $10 billion in damages; Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed last week that all of it would come from the Treasury General Account, which consists entirely of taxpayer dollars.
    Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026

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