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 The massive influx of people, which totaled 70% of Ceuta’s resident population, sparked calls by local Spanish authorities for police and the army to establish order. ABC News, 1 Aug. 2026 San Diego’s offense, by contrast, totaled 12 hits, the loudest being rookie Jase Bowen’s first career home run in the bottom of the fourth. Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2026 Robinson totaled 2,298 yards from scrimmage and 11 touchdowns last season. Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2026 Trotter has been a capable backup and has totaled 627 special teams snaps in two seasons. Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 31 July 2026 Kyle Hart and Griffin Canning, whose roles were inverted, totaled 5 2/3 scoreless innings to further reward the creative tactics adopted recently by manager Craig Stammen, pitching coach Ruben Niebla and bullpen coach Ben Fritz. Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2026 At first, Feeley and ICE officials said the temporary removals of detainees from Krome and other South Florida immigration facilities totaled 47 and resulted from fire threats in June and other factors, such as a lack of beds. Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 30 July 2026 In two stints as the Irish quarterback in 2011-2012 and 2014, Golson threw for nearly 6,000 yards and totaled 55 touchdowns. Tom Layberger, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 Census data was collected at the block-level, then totaled up to the district level for each set of maps. Rahul Mukherjee, NPR, 23 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for totaled
Verb
  • His 14 home runs have averaged 418 feet in length, which is tied for the best average in the majors this season.
    ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026
  • According to the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board, cannabis flower harvested in the 1990s averaged around 5% THC; by 2022, the state’s average flower potency had climbed to roughly 21%, with some strains tested as high as 35%.
    Peter Su, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
Verb
  • In May, the Atlanta Department of Transportation added concrete barriers to the inside of a bike lane on Cherokee Avenue in an attempt to further protect cyclists from cars.
    AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 31 July 2026
  • Pauline Astier added 19 points for the Liberty and Sabrina Ionescu had 15.
    ABC News, ABC News, 31 July 2026
Verb
  • After the match, Brock Lesnar Oba Femi destroyed Brock Lesnar in their first encounter, which made an already rising Oba Femi into an overnight sensation.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Weeks later in Georgia, the Highway 82 Fire destroyed more than 120 homes – the most lost to a single fire since state records began in the 1950s – while blazes across the Southeast pushed smoke into communities that rarely see it.
    Martin Goillandeau, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Allain Bougrain-Dubourg, president of France’s League for the Protection of Birds, told RMC radio that animals affected already numbered in the millions.
    Thomas Adamson, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Sources told the Daily News that the majority of the TLC’s enforcement squad — which at the time numbered roughly 120 officers in total — was tasked to the airport crackdown.
    Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • At public institutions, the average amount that a student pays now after all the discounts and everything is subtracted is only about $2,300 according to the college board.
    Dana Taylor, USA Today, 20 July 2026
  • The report then stripped out liabilities, which includes mortgage debt, of $5 trillion and subtracted the wealth of the top 1%, estimated at $28 trillion.
    Robert Frank, CNBC, 17 July 2026
Verb
  • Let’s talk about the outfits that get ruined or made irrelevant!
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 31 July 2026
  • The spring warrant cited charities, a hospital, other city officials and community members that Parris declined to identify for fear of their reputations being ruined.
    Pat Maio, Daily News, 31 July 2026
Verb
  • Georgia’s 2026 election results will be aggregated on Election Night by the secretary of state from a secret emergency bunker, which is off-limits to candidates, the public, and even to the State Election Board, which has requested access.
    Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 16 July 2026
  • Approval ratings at the state level are aggregated by Morning Consult from April 1 - June 30.
    Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 15 July 2026
Verb
  • The late Bill Carr, a former Florida athletic director who was Houston’s AD when the SWC breakup began, once summed this up to me in a way that still sticks.
    Sam Khan Jr, New York Times, 1 July 2026
  • Because colonization can precede infection, one patient may count as both a screening case and, later, a clinical case, so the two totals overlap and cannot be summed.
    John Drake, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026

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“Totaled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/totaled. Accessed 4 Aug. 2026.

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