totaled

variants or totalled
past tense of total
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as in destroyed
to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of a powerful hurricane totaled the house some years ago

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Recent Examples of totaled According to Dykes, the cost to accommodate the shifts in trade policy totaled $60 million in the third quarter, and is expected to have a direct impact between $75 million and $100 million. Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 28 Oct. 2025 Smith totaled two hits across four at-bats, hitting a home run and driving in three runs to help the Dodgers win, 5-1. Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025 Each vendor gets pages specific to their order and creates their own bible; Euroco’s bible for four costumes totaled roughly 130 pages. Katie Weisman, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2025 In fact, this team has totaled 34 more points through eight games than the 2023 version scored in 14. Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025 Fontecchio totaled 14 points on 4-of-8 shooting from three-point range, four rebounds, two assists and two steals. Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 25 Oct. 2025 Missouri was tagged for only four penalties, but those flags totaled 50 yards. Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 19 Oct. 2025 For the year, total GMC Sierra full-size light duty and heavy duty pickups sales totaled 324,734, a 10% gain year-over-year. Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 3 Jan. 2025 The two grant categories totaled $19,881,347 and $10,296,100 respectively, according to PDE. Kristina Watrobski, Baltimore Sun, 3 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for totaled
Verb
  • While Spanish chroniclers numbered the population around the time of European contact to have been 1 million, anthropologists have disputed this, arguing instead for the population to have been 6–12 million.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Last summer in Yosemite, park employees numbered 758, while Aramark employees numbered 1,271.
    Gloria Liu, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The concerned sister added that the family would keep looking.
    Kelsey Lentz, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
  • One of America’s largest and bustling employment hubs, New York City, added fewer than 1,000 private sector jobs in the first half of this year.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Herodotus reasoned that had Helen in fact been within the walls of Troy instead of in Egypt, the Trojans would surely have surrendered her to the Greeks rather than allow their city to be destroyed.
    Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Your homes may have been damaged or destroyed and your communities and towns no longer look the same.
    Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In 2012, the Stones River Paranormal ghost hunters came with equipment and measured for the presence of spirits.
    Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 30 Oct. 2025
  • That’s why the cheesecake, chicken salad, arroz con leche and pico de gallo in the cooler measured anywhere from 48 to 52 degrees.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But in an Akan language, the notion that an object could exist as a bare substrate, stripped of properties—say, the idea of a stone, with its weight, texture, and color subtracted—is basically unintelligible; the metaphysical split between a thing and its properties isn’t naturally expressible.
    Lula Konner, The New York Review of Books, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Typically, the report is released on the first Friday of the month and includes information about how many jobs were added or subtracted from each industry.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In 1816 the stratosphere was saturated with Tambora’s dust, and sea ice nearly wrecked Scoresby’s ship off the eastern coast of Greenland.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
  • If Matt had wrecked his bike, broken his collarbone, or been whacked by a car, the decision would be easy.
    Maggie Slepian, Outside, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The case of Mamulya, a donkey whose hoof was shattered, apparently in a mine explosion, becomes central to the story, emblematic of the assistance the sanctuary receives from within and beyond Ukraine’s borders in order to provide state-of-the-art medical treatments.
    Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
  • But when newspapers shifted from reinforcing social order to documenting disorder in readers’ own communities, audiences responded by distrusting the institution that shattered their comforting myths.
    David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • An old fur coat or feather stole could also be ruined.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Cash is king right now, Hsia said, and the AFJ is matching up to $1 million in donations that will go toward things such as new roofs for houses whose roofs were blown off and new furniture after many people's belongings were soaked through and ruined.
    Matt Nighswander, NBC news, 30 Oct. 2025

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“Totaled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/totaled. Accessed 2 Nov. 2025.

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