totalizing

verb

present participle of totalize
as in adding
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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  1. adding
  2. subtracting
  3. calculating
  4. summing
Verb
  • Options considered during the analysis included drilling holes in the existing piles and adding more steel inside, or widening the pile caps so more piles could be added on the outside.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Rounding out the promotion is the Gosoul2 Pro Dual Motor, available for US$799 with code NATLBTS, adding another dual-motor option to the Back to School lineup.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of adding
Verb
  • The blue line is the actual MACD and is calculated by subtracting the 26-period exponential moving average (EMA) from the 12-period EMA.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2026
  • If employees cannot function well when the system is unavailable, the technology is subtracting value even as the metrics suggest otherwise.
    — Mohamed Khater, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of subtracting
Verb
  • Understanding the rules and calculating your expenses, funding gap and available federal loan amounts is essential.
    — Deane Biermeier, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Its more consequential proposal, however, is a new approach to calculating wool’s carbon footprint that produces dramatically lower results than conventional life-cycle assessments.
    — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of calculating
Verb
  • Speaking time per person was calculated by summing the duration of each of their utterances and excluding silent gaps.
    — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 1 June 2026
  • There’s no better way of summing them up.
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 25 May 2026
Definition of summing
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