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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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3
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
Young also appeared in six NBA games with the Bulls as a rookie last season, totaling 11 points on 4-of-5 shooting from the field, 1-of-2 shooting on threes and 2-of-2 shooting from the foul line, three rebounds and six assists in 30 minutes.
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Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
The Tigers also had nine tackles for losses totalling 43 yards.
—Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 19 Oct. 2025
The Bears hurt themselves with nine penalties totaling 80 yards, but won the turnover battle 2-0.
—Jeff Faraudo, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025
With contracts totaling $87 million for the first three years, the Standardized Organoid Modeling Center will use and develop these cutting-edge technologies.
—Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 18 Oct. 2025
Once a single dining room, the space has expanded to include six separate rooms and a full-service bar, totaling 13,000 square feet.
—Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 17 Oct. 2025
In total, the couple managed to book four round-trip flights totaling a whopping 1,028,000 KrisFlyer points.
—Chris Dong, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2025
Over his three preseason appearances, Harper played more minutes than any other Celtics tryout or two-way player, totaling 13 points on 4-of-10 shooting (3-for-7 from 3-point range), three assists, two offensive rebounds, one block and one steal.
—Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
Each method allows up to 10 votes per couple, totaling 20 votes.
—Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Oct. 2025
Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
The Tigers also had nine tackles for losses totalling 43 yards.
—Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 19 Oct. 2025
The Bears hurt themselves with nine penalties totaling 80 yards, but won the turnover battle 2-0.
—Jeff Faraudo, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025
With contracts totaling $87 million for the first three years, the Standardized Organoid Modeling Center will use and develop these cutting-edge technologies.
—Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 18 Oct. 2025
Once a single dining room, the space has expanded to include six separate rooms and a full-service bar, totaling 13,000 square feet.
—Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 17 Oct. 2025
In total, the couple managed to book four round-trip flights totaling a whopping 1,028,000 KrisFlyer points.
—Chris Dong, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2025
Over his three preseason appearances, Harper played more minutes than any other Celtics tryout or two-way player, totaling 13 points on 4-of-10 shooting (3-for-7 from 3-point range), three assists, two offensive rebounds, one block and one steal.
—Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
Each method allows up to 10 votes per couple, totaling 20 votes.
—Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for totaling
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With Tahoe, Apple has switched from a sequential numbering scheme for each new version of macOS to numbering by the year of release.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
21 Oct. 2025
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Israel’s travelling supporters, numbering roughly 100, inside the Ullevaal Stadion on Saturday evening, had similar hopes.—
Philip Buckingham,
New York Times,
12 Oct. 2025
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In his budget request, Evers recommended adding four state agents to enforce video gambling rules in taverns.—
Hope Karnopp,
jsonline.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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United, some of whose senior leadership team, including its chief executive, Scott Kirby, came from American, has done the opposite and is in the process of adding thousands of screens to narrow-body planes both new and old, including Bluetooth technology for wireless headphones.—
Leslie Josephs,
CNBC,
26 Oct. 2025
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Continue reading … HISTORY HYPOCRITES – Hawley turns tables on reporter when asked if White House renovation is destroying history.—
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FOXNews.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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Saving Denji’s life, Pochita and the young man make a deal to fuse, imbuing him with the ability to turn parts of his body into Devil-destroying chainsaws.—
Jack Smart,
PEOPLE,
23 Oct. 2025
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The leap from knots to links is a relatively small one, but mathematicians can extend the ideas of knot theory to study mind-bending concepts such as higher-dimensional knots, surfaces with knotted edges and difficult-to-imagine objects obtained by subtracting a knot from three-dimensional space.—
Emma R. Hasson,
Scientific American,
3 Oct. 2025
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Business inventories also shrank, subtracting over three percentage points from GDP.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Sep. 2025
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The first of the live-action adaptations arrived in November 2024, shattering box-office records.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
20 Oct. 2025
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The latter outlet, an NBC affiliate, reported that two bullets came through the window of his bedroom, shattering it in the process.—
Bailey Richards,
PEOPLE,
19 Oct. 2025
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By aggregating the right data features and triangulating multiple points of affirmation, situational certainty grows strong, enabling confident real-time actions that drive business outcomes.—
Bill Waid,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Meanwhile, aggregating the GPU ecosystem into one platform could more significantly highlight the price disparity between the options and drive customers towards the cheaper neoclouds.—
Rachyl Jones,
semafor.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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That history came to an end after wrecking crews tore down the wing’s two stories of offices and reception rooms last week.—
Darlene Superville,
Denver Post,
26 Oct. 2025
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The big money takeover is wrecking college sports.—
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FOXNews.com,
20 Oct. 2025
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His inclusion could come across as a cynical ploy, a way of measuring social progress in a backward town.—
Grace Byron,
New Yorker,
22 Oct. 2025
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Participant assessments were done before, mid-, and after the eight-week program and included measuring biological and psychological markers.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Totaling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/totaling. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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