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or totalling
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as in numbering
to have a total of
two and two total four
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2
as in adding
to combine (numbers) into a single sum
total all the receipts and tell me how much I owe you
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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
Rob Schwartz 60 Minutes The Justice Department alleges Van Dyke made a series of wagers totalling roughly $34,000, including a half dozen the day before the raid.
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Jon Wertheim,
CBS News,
28 June 2026
In a match totalling five shots, Gotham was true on both of its attempts for a 2-0 shutout victory over the Current.
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The Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
27 June 2026
Her death was initially ruled an accident, and Vander Meer later submitted a life insurance claim with a payout totaling about $567,439, authorities said.
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Kori McNair,
Los Angeles Times,
27 June 2026
The two worked together to help Holden get the Chick Evans Scholarship, which is a full college tuition and housing scholarship totaling over $125,000 across four years of studies.
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Lexi Lane,
PEOPLE,
27 June 2026
For many families like mine, the twenty-six World Cup games that Messi played from 2006 to 2022, totalling more than twenty-three hundred minutes of game time, are remembered more like life events.
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Jordan Salama,
New Yorker,
27 June 2026
The Dutch shipyard has completed its first delivery of 2026, with four superyachts totaling over 530 feet and nearly 2,180 GT expected to hit the seas this year.
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Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
26 June 2026
Fedwire was used to make more than 54 million transfers totaling more than $283 trillion in the first quarter of 2026, according to Fedwire.
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Eleanor Mueller,
semafor.com,
26 June 2026
On May 5, the city of Denton renewed the lease for an annual rent of $1,320 for 20-years with two 10-year options for renewal, totaling a potential 40-year term.
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Kamal Morgan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 June 2026
Jon Wertheim,
CBS News,
28 June 2026
In a match totalling five shots, Gotham was true on both of its attempts for a 2-0 shutout victory over the Current.
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The Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
27 June 2026
Her death was initially ruled an accident, and Vander Meer later submitted a life insurance claim with a payout totaling about $567,439, authorities said.
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Kori McNair,
Los Angeles Times,
27 June 2026
The two worked together to help Holden get the Chick Evans Scholarship, which is a full college tuition and housing scholarship totaling over $125,000 across four years of studies.
—
Lexi Lane,
PEOPLE,
27 June 2026
For many families like mine, the twenty-six World Cup games that Messi played from 2006 to 2022, totalling more than twenty-three hundred minutes of game time, are remembered more like life events.
—
Jordan Salama,
New Yorker,
27 June 2026
The Dutch shipyard has completed its first delivery of 2026, with four superyachts totaling over 530 feet and nearly 2,180 GT expected to hit the seas this year.
—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
26 June 2026
Fedwire was used to make more than 54 million transfers totaling more than $283 trillion in the first quarter of 2026, according to Fedwire.
—
Eleanor Mueller,
semafor.com,
26 June 2026
On May 5, the city of Denton renewed the lease for an annual rent of $1,320 for 20-years with two 10-year options for renewal, totaling a potential 40-year term.
—
Kamal Morgan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for totaling
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The list of 529 invitees released Wednesday morning by the Academy — which includes 95 Oscar nominees, 21 Oscar winners and three Scientific and Technical Award recipients — follows classes numbering 395 in 2021, 397 in 2022, 398 in 2023 and 487 in 2024 and 534 in 2025.
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Not about the sport of golf UConn views the practice center as essential to recruitment to its golf program, now numbering nine athletes.
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Utility Iren was doubling workers' shifts and adding generators to address sporadic power cuts in Turin as the electricity grid came under strain, a spokesperson said.
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The work addresses a longstanding challenge in lightweight airframe design by increasing structural strength and stability without adding unnecessary weight.
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That second blaze burned charred 23,500 acres in that community, Malibu and elsewhere, killing 12 people and destroying or damaging more than 7,500 homes and businesses.
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These kinds of old negatives are often stored inside cans and are so fragile they can’t be unrolled without destroying them, Seales says.
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By establishing a national-scale portal for aggregating and distributing information, Yahoo!
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It was picked up by aggregating websites focusing on Cubs news and discussed again Saturday on the team’s flagship radio station, WSCR-AM 670.
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Gross profit is revenue without subtracting the cost of production expenses.
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What did help ease respondent's minds, based on the survey results, was having a higher net worth, found by subtracting a household's liabilities from its assets.
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But everyday people expressed their political outrage time and again, throwing rocks at and demolishing the houses of government officials, torching the king’s ships and forts and, eventually, marching to battle.
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During that 25-day closure, PennDOT crews will be demolishing the existing Commercial Street Bridge and sliding in the new bridge, which has been constructed alongside the Parkway East outside of the Squirrel Hill Tunnel.
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The boat was designed around 54 guest cabins, comprising 48 suites and six penthouse apartments.
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Day and Night will be a double album clocking in at 24 tracks, with each LP comprising 12 songs.
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Speaking time per person was calculated by summing the duration of each of their utterances and excluding silent gaps.
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There’s no better way of summing them up.
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