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 Sarah Jones, New Republic, 13 Dec. 2017 The very idea of a reputation for fairness is obsolete before this totalizing partisanship.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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  • Ladd McConkey added six catches for 74 yards.
    Jesse Newell, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • After a major measles resurgence began in 1989, scientists moved to add a second dose of the MMR vaccine to bolster protection—but the American Academy of Pediatrics and the CDC’s vaccine-advisory panel disagreed on the optimal time to administer it.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2025
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  • Spence’s post on social media after Spurs’ victory over Man City at the Etihad perfectly sums him up.
    Jay Harris, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Meanwhile, the more deadpan Jessica Pegula summed it up succinctly.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
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  • The payments are calculated to increase by 5% every year.
    George Petras, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Dennis Culhane, a University of Pennsylvania professor who specializes in homelessness and housing policy, calculated that the number of men older than 60 living in shelters roughly tripled from 2000 to 2020.
    Felice J. Freyer, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Totalize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/totalize. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.

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