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 Sarah Jones, New Republic, 13 Dec. 2017 The very idea of a reputation for fairness is obsolete before this totalizing partisanship.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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  • Testing in a model plant The team added the McG cycle genes to Arabidopsis thaliana, a small weed often used in plant research.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Vengathattil added that hospitals do not need to wait years to see the benefits.
    Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
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  • Blaney summed it up by saying that race car drivers, like basketball and football players, have a switch.
    Andy Frye, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • 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
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  • That asymmetry matters when calculating total cost and complexity.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Advertisement Advertisement The period piece presents the sisters as calculating and strategic, yet brutal in their enforcement of control.
    Isabella Wandermurem, Time, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Totalize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/totalize. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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