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 Its claim to moral superiority rests on the totalizing depravity of the opposition…. Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 15 Dec. 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 Sarah Jones, New Republic, 13 Dec. 2017 The very idea of a reputation for fairness is obsolete before this totalizing partisanship.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 Fortunately, the video was a less, to borrow nifty jargon, totalizing experience. Alfred Soto, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2017 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
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  • Because access to opportunity is not evenly distributed, Patel adds that receiving help isn’t something to feel guilty about.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Dylan Lynch would add a 21-yard and a 38-yard field goal in the victory.
    Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Oct. 2025
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  • Perhaps Counsell summed it up best.
    Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Cats are notoriously mischievous—but there's a reason so many people have them anyway, and one man summed it up in a viral TikTok video.
    Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
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  • The National College Attainment Network, a nonprofit aimed at improving student access to higher education, has calculated each state's affordability gap for nearly a decade.
    Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Humana claimed in its lawsuit that the ratings were calculated unfairly, as they were based on a CMS test of its phone support for people with limited English proficiency.
    Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Totalize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/totalize. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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