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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for totalizing
  1. adding
  2. subtracting
  3. calculating
  4. summing
Verb
  • But, over the past several weeks, 200 million barrels of oil came out of the strait — adding 17 days of supply, according to Lipow Oil Associates.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 14 July 2026
  • In North Carolina, House Bill 8 was part of a larger education bill that also covered things like adding a computer science requirement for high school graduation.
    — Chloe Albanesius, PC Magazine, 14 July 2026
Definition of adding
Verb
  • Nvidia provided the biggest boost to the Nasdaq-100, contributing 98 points, while Microsoft was the largest drag, subtracting 21 points.
    — Yun Li, CNBC, 14 July 2026
  • Before Johnson and the Canucks could add Gallagher, Vancouver first had to go about subtracting from the lineup.
    — Thomas Drance, New York Times, 30 June 2026
Definition of subtracting
Verb
  • Unfortunately, most people are far more likely to run into questions of budgeting and investing than, say, calculating the area of a triangle (some professions aside).
    — Becca Stanek, TheWeek, 13 July 2026
  • The company then looked at which chains operate in each state, separating them by the lowest- and highest-priced and then calculating the percentage difference between them.
    — Anna Halkidis, Parents, 13 July 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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