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 Additionally, MarQuel Mederos and Carli Judice each received $100,000 Performance of the Night bonuses, totaling $400,000 in fighter incentives for the night. Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026 That was successful and he was named in Didier Deschamps’ squad, although played only three times as a substitute, totalling 21 minutes as his side were knocked out by Spain in the semi-finals. Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026 In San Francisco, AI companies made up 58% of all leasing in the first half of this year and have accounted for 30% of leasing activity, totaling about 10 million square feet, since 2023, according to CBRE. Diana Olick, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2026 Ohio State and Notre Dame reportedly landed patch deals totaling around $30 million. ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026 Just look to the latest EveryWatch Secondary Market Report, which clocked 101% growth in RCPO sales—now totaling $385 million—for the first half of 2026 compared with the same period in 2025. Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 20 Aug. 2026 Now, in early August, Winmill ordered attorneys’ fees and expenses in those cases, totaling around $73,000 to Ramirez-Smith Law and just under $14,000 to another law firm. Idaho Statesman, 15 Aug. 2026 The electrical malfunction, whose cause remains unclear, has resulted in property damages totaling more than $80,000. Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2026 The 64 market-rate apartments would be in two three-story buildings totaling 56,400 square feet. Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 14 Aug. 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
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  • Options considered during the analysis included drilling holes in the existing piles and adding more steel inside, or widening the pile caps so more piles could be added on the outside.
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  • Pumping at high speeds creates a suction vortex (upconing) that violently draws heavy sludge into the production stream, fouling piping and destroying surface pumps.
    Siddharth Misra, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
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    ABC News, ABC News, 25 Aug. 2026
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  • 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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    Peter High, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
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  • The blue line is the actual MACD and is calculated by subtracting the 26-period exponential moving average (EMA) from the 12-period EMA.
    Zev Fima, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2026
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    Mohamed Khater, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026
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  • As community members organized marches and protests, Abdeen helped bring a class-action lawsuit against the city, arguing that demolishing the neighborhood would violate residents’ civil rights.
    Rozina Ali, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 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 30 Aug. 2026.

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