totaling

variants or totalling
present participle of total
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as in destroying
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 totaling Graham was held on bonds totaling $1,150,000 and was scheduled to appear in Manchester Superior Court on Friday. Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 18 Sep. 2026 Erin Gibson and Aron Gibson each received one vote, totalling 41 votes. Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2026 Following the round, OpenAI completed a secondary share sale totaling roughly $7 billion in August, allowing employees to cash in a portion of their holdings. Ashley Capoot,david Faber,kate Rooney, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2026 In addition, Alexander wrote, the investigation found other spending irregularities totaling thousands of dollars in purchases and fuel card spending since January. Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2026 The plan would also provide up to $13 billion for intelligence costs, totaling $73 billion to cover the Iran war. Steven Beynon, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2026 District Attorney Brooke Jenkins' office announced Monday that 44-year-old Orlando Vilchez Lazo received six life sentences, totaling 150 years to life in state prison. Tim Fang, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2026 The dual-threat Dart delivered an encouraging rookie year, totaling 24 touchdowns in 14 games (12 starts). Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 6 Sep. 2026 While nearly every Florida county has some form of a tax on hotel stays — totaling more than $1 billion statewide — the largest pool is in Orange County, where millions visit for theme park vacations and business conventions annually. Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2026
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    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The groups, with members numbering in the dozens, have attempted to cross from Israel to Syria every few days in recent weeks.
    Natalie Melzer, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026
Verb
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    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2026
  • However, there are some things to keep in mind before adding green tea to your routine.
    Jillian Kubala, HEALTH, 15 Sep. 2026
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  • Sonil Jain, Co-founder of Sowtex and ReMaterial, noted that for a fabric exporter trading with Russia, Brazil, or the UAE, there were many possible benefits, including cheaper, faster B2B settlements without dollar-clearing fees destroying margins.
    Mayu Saini, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Some put the chance of AI destroying everyone, everywhere, all at once at around 50%.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
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    Mario Carpo, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
  • These approaches include molecules designed to clear these protein clumps or reduce their production, as well as molecules that can stop them from aggregating.
    Sunil Kumar, The Conversation, 31 July 2026
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  • Back in the early spring, the idea of subtracting a durable 33-game starter (and a former second-round pick) from a defensive line that seemed to be an area of major concern for the Bears would have been unthinkable.
    Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Not to be outdone, math-magicians on Capitol Hill have been busily subtracting workdays.
    Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2026
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  • One drone operator talks about going out for lunch or hanging out with their friends in Tel Aviv after demolishing people’s houses in Gaza from miles away.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2026
  • At Cordova Villa Elementary, construction includes demolishing the existing administration building and a classroom building.
    Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2026
Verb
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    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Global Times reported that CCTV showed China’s Atlas drone-swarm operations system in March, comprising the Swarm-2 ground combat vehicle, a command vehicle and a support vehicle.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2026
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  • Speaking time per person was calculated by summing the duration of each of their utterances and excluding silent gaps.
    Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 1 June 2026
  • There’s no better way of summing them up.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 25 May 2026

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“Totaling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/totaling. Accessed 19 Sep. 2026.

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