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.
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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.
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chicagotribune.com,
7 Mar. 2018
Its claim to moral superiority rests on the totalizing depravity of the opposition….
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Ed Kilgore,
Daily Intelligencer,
15 Dec. 2017
Its claim to moral superiority rests on the totalizing depravity of the opposition.
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Sarah Jones,
New Republic,
13 Dec. 2017
The very idea of a reputation for fairness is obsolete before this totalizing partisanship.
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David A. Graham,
The Atlantic,
11 Dec. 2017
Fortunately, the video was a less, to borrow nifty jargon, totalizing experience.
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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.
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Carina Chocano,
New York Times,
26 Sep. 2017
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The very idea of a reputation for fairness is obsolete before this totalizing partisanship.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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for totalize
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Vance is still the default nominee, and Trump entrusting him with an Iran deal that could make or break his presidency is a sign of Vance’s clout, the person added.
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Tyasha Harris — starting in place of Clark — scored 16, while Monique Billings added 15 points.
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Kakanias sums it up more succinctly.
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Analysts at Deutsche Bank summed it up nicely in a June 11 note to clients.
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For months, shipping companies have been in wait and see mode, carefully calculating the risk of moving ships through the strait.
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High of 86, low of 68 The humidity could also make the heat harder to tolerate, with a higher humidity playing a part in how NWS calculates the risk for extreme heat.
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