tallying

verb

present participle of tally
1
as in corresponding
to be in agreement on every point our lists for best movies of the year tally perfectly

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2
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 Yamamoto was also highly efficient with the Dodgers opting for a bullpen game in Sunday’s nightcap, tallying 102 pitches, as well as zero walks and seven strikeouts. — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 19 July 2026 Tonje capped his strong showing in Sin City by tallying 14 points on 6-of-9 shooting, four rebounds, three assists, one steal and one block in 19 minutes against Orlando. — Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 18 July 2026 Lionel Messi has played six matches for Argentina in World Cup action, tallying eight goals (first in the 2026 World Cup) and two assists. — Data Skrive, New York Times, 15 July 2026 But with the Marlins tallying just two extra-base hits and pitcher William Kempner allowing two runs in an eighth inning that unraveled quickly, another solid start went unrewarded. — Tyler M. Carmona july 11, Miami Herald, 12 July 2026 Officials are still tallying figures from this year’s holiday, but last year wrote 41 citations during the July 4, 2025 celebrations, totaling $300,000 in fines, said Elk Grove Police Department. — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 8 July 2026 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tallying
  1. corresponding
  2. scoring
  3. coinciding
  4. checking
  5. conforming
  6. agreeing
  7. consisting
Verb
  • Klimoska has been part of the Talents Sarajevo program at Sarajevo Film Festival, and the corresponding scheme at the Berlinale.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2026
  • Putnam notes that each vessel carries a distinct color corresponding to its stage of life—yellow for birth, red for growth and blue for rebirth.
    — Anthony DeMarco, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of corresponding
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  • According to park factor, the run-scoring environment at Sutter Health the past two seasons is the second-most robust in the majors, behind only Coors Field.
    — Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 21 July 2026
  • Many have labeled the match dull, with neither team scoring until Spain’s Ferran Torres smashed the ball into the back of the net in the 106th minute to defeat reigning champs Argentina.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 20 July 2026
Definition of scoring
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  • Concerns over public health, drug use, safety and the cost to emergency services have helped fuel local policies to build more shelters, coinciding with drops in the number of people living on the street.
    — Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 23 July 2026
  • Nevertheless, shares of CrowdStrike and fellow Club cyber name Palo Alto Networks fell nearly 2% Wednesday, coinciding with a broader pullback in enterprise software stocks in the session.
    — Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 22 July 2026
Definition of coinciding
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  • Allow your eyes 20 to 30 minutes to adapt to the darkness, avoid checking bright smartphone screens and don’t use binoculars or telescopes, which will only restrict your view of the night sky.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
  • An easy way of testing this is checking the current texture of your hair.
    — Dominic Cadogan, Glamour, 25 July 2026
Definition of checking
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  • These include completing the Critical Design Review (CDR) by the end of 2026, which will establish the certifiable design baseline for the aircraft and enable the production and testing of certification-conforming models.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 18 July 2026
  • Whenever there is irregular talent, someone capable of breaking their role’s conventions, there are arguments about conforming to orthodoxy.
    — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 18 July 2026
Definition of conforming
Verb
  • The visit also gave new impetus to economic ties, with both countries agreeing to rapidly increase bilateral trade, expand cooperation in economic forums such as the World Trade Organization, and establish a financial dialogue mechanism.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 July 2026
  • The filmmakers found that even mentioning her bloodline repelled potential subjects from agreeing to be interviewed.
    — Jake Kring-Schreifels, Time, 22 July 2026
Definition of agreeing
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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
Definition of consisting

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