tallying

present participle of tally
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as in scoring
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 tallying The 18-year-old forward played for the Medicine Hat Tigers of the Western Hockey League last season, tallying 45 goals and 59 assists in 68 games. Patrick Damp, CBS News, 26 June 2026 According to Pew, Indonesia, Italy, Nigeria, South Africa, South Korea and Turkey saw some of the most significant drops in favorable views of the United States, with each tallying double-digit declines over the past year. Drew Pittock, USA Today, 23 June 2026 Leading the way was Erling Haaland, Norway’s star striker, who scored two goals against Senegal after tallying two last week against Iraq. Tim Rohan, NBC news, 23 June 2026 Angel Reese starred again for the Dream on Thursday night in Indianapolis, tallying her 10th double-double of the season in a 108-101 win over the Fever. Ajc Sports, AJC.com, 19 June 2026 The human-rights groups are also tallying Iran’s civilian war dead—about 1,700, according to HRANA, 250 of them children—and tracking a campaign of domestic repression and intimidation that has escalated since the United States and Israel began striking Iran on February 28. Laura Secor, The Atlantic, 16 June 2026 Much of the slow count results from tallying mail ballots, which amount to at least 80% of votes cast. Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2026 The storms hit the south suburbs and broader Illinois hard, too, with state officials tallying nearly 5,000 structures affected. Daniel C. Vock, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2026 In a recent game against the New York Mets, May delivered six scoreless innings with just one walk and four hits, while tallying six strikeouts. Peter Chawaga, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
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  • The most popular team kits this year are for Mexico, Argentina, Spain, France and USA, while corresponding player jerseys from Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappé and Lamine Yamal are also selling quickly, thanks to their performances on the pitch (and overall star quality to boot).
    Tim Chan, Footwear News, 22 June 2026
  • The cameras, not so much hunting as scavenging, fed the numbers and their corresponding locations into a national database owned by a company that sells the information.
    Paige Williams, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
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  • Kylian Mbappé passed Pelé on the World Cup goal-scoring list and inched closer to setting the overall goal record for the tournament.
    CBS News, CBS News, 22 June 2026
  • Argentina advanced to the knockout round by winning its first two group games, with Messi scoring all five of the team’s goals so far in his sixth World Cup.
    Stephen Hawkins, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2026
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  • Boston University is hosting 32 Norwegians for 10 weeks, until mid-August, in the Gründerskolen Norway entrepreneurship program, coinciding with the premier global soccer tournament.
    Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 26 June 2026
  • He had been sidelined by a right hamstring strain since late May, coinciding with the Rays’ majors-worst-matching 8-16 run.
    Marc Topkin, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 June 2026
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  • The Sabres traded defenseman Bowen Byram and checking line forward Jordan Greenway to the Chicago Blackhawks.
    ABC News, ABC News, 24 June 2026
  • Think booking concert tickets (mostly) autonomously, pulling items from your Notes app and adding them to an Amazon cart, or checking your emails and drafting a response.
    Janhoi McGregor, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
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  • Vice president of communications Erin Kaplan says the classic innerspring mattress delivered temperature-regulating, body-conforming comfort for her as a side sleeper.
    Blake Bakkila, Architectural Digest, 23 June 2026
  • This design maximizes ocean views while conforming to the slope across five or possibly more levels.
    Sandra Barrera, Oc Register, 19 June 2026
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  • Half of respondents stipulate, agreeing to the order without a legal fight.
    Christopher Carita, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 June 2026
  • The total number of children agreeing to voluntary departure has increased sevenfold, the Vera Institute of Justice found.
    E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 20 June 2026
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  • The meet continues Thursday, a day consisting largely of women’s preliminaries, followed by men’s finals Friday and women’s finals Saturday.
    Mike Wilson, New York Times, 11 June 2026
  • Existing commercial solar panels are also physically bulky systems consisting not just of photovoltaic materials but also of thick protective glass, encapsulation layers, metallic contacts, mounting hardware, and structural framing.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 26 May 2026

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