as in to add
to combine (numbers) into a single sum when we totalized our restaurant receipts for a month, the result was a little startling

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Recent Examples of totalize If privacy pays, great, but if totalizing control pays more, then so be it. Tim Wu, The New York Review of Books, 24 Mar. 2020 As a rule, the more abstract and totalizing the ideology, the more blood that follows in its wake. chicagotribune.com, 7 Mar. 2018 Our tug of war over what is important and what is irrelevant reveals something unsettling: a bent toward totalizing ideologies and a seismic struggle over which one gets to lay claim — in our minds, at least — to the center of the universe. Carina Chocano, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2017 Its claim to moral superiority rests on the totalizing depravity of the opposition. Sarah Jones, New Republic, 13 Dec. 2017 The very idea of a reputation for fairness is obsolete before this totalizing partisanship. David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2017 Its claim to moral superiority rests on the totalizing depravity of the opposition…. Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 15 Dec. 2017 Fortunately, the video was a less, to borrow nifty jargon, totalizing experience. Alfred Soto, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2017
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  • The tour has been selling out, with Lorde adding additional dates in each city.
    Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2025
  • Lakers add Dixon The Lakers signed former Villanova forward Eric Dixon to a two-way contract, according to people with knowledge of the deal not authorized to speak publicly.
    Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025
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  • Kathy Hochul summed it up with a single barnyard epithet There is the thicket, and there is the path.
    Jamie Malanowski, Air Mail, 21 June 2025
  • Brandon Lowe, the veteran second baseman, summed it up best last week.
    Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 20 June 2025
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  • Public fortunes were calculated based on stock prices and exchange rates as on June 13.
    Phisanu Phromchanya, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • That’s partly because the budget wasn’t released, and because DeSantis — who has seen the state budget balloon by 26% on his watch — used some creative accounting to calculate the total.
    Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 1 July 2025

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“Totalize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/totalize. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.

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