totaling

variants or totalling
present participle of total
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as in destroying
to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of a powerful hurricane totaled the house some years ago

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Recent Examples of totaling Each method allows up to 10 votes per couple, totaling 20 votes. Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Oct. 2025 Invoice records show that Gatlin made six payments totaling $17,400 for her membership to CHIEF between 2021 and 2025. Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 12 Oct. 2025 An arbitration filing against Merrill Lynch initially sought damages totaling $16 million, documents from BrokerCheck showed. Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025 The departments of Revenue and Workforce Development also have filed cases against the company for delinquient taxes totaling more than $6,000. Angelika Ytuarte, jsonline.com, 10 Oct. 2025 One-time state funds totaling $285,219 have been used for curriculum development and teacher training, Brown said. Hanna Kang, Oc Register, 10 Oct. 2025 From 2013 to 2017, Epstein’s attorney made 97 withdrawals totaling over $800,000 in cash from Deutsche Bank’s Park Avenue branch. Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025 United’s summer sales of Alejandro Garnacho to Chelsea (£40m; $53m), plus sell-on clauses totalling about £15m for Alvaro Carreras, Anthony Elanga and Maxi Oyedele, helped the club make signings in the summer window, but the new hierarchy believe improvements can be made. Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025 In starts by Mahomes, the Chiefs were 28-0 when totaling at least 375 yards of offense and allowing fewer than 350. Sam McDowell October 7, Kansas City Star, 7 Oct. 2025
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Verb
  • Israel’s travelling supporters, numbering roughly 100, inside the Ullevaal Stadion on Saturday evening, had similar hopes.
    Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • That would leave, at the start of 2026, an EPA staff numbering approximately 9,700 people, a level not seen since the last years of the Nixon and Ford administrations.
    Chris Sellers, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But Setser sees problems with the country’s economic program that won’t go away even if that happens – adding more layers of risk to the US intervention.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Rattler completed 20 of 26 passes for 227 yards while adding another 20 yards scrambling.
    Chad Graff, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The former screen siren was fined nearly $25,000 in 2008 after being convicted of provoking discrimination and racial hatred for writing that Muslims are destroying her country.
    Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Block destruction is one of Minter’s defensive pillars, and the Chargers have not been destroying blocks on some of these explosive runs.
    Daniel Popper, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The leap from knots to links is a relatively small one, but mathematicians can extend the ideas of knot theory to study mind-bending concepts such as higher-dimensional knots, surfaces with knotted edges and difficult-to-imagine objects obtained by subtracting a knot from three-dimensional space.
    Emma R. Hasson, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Business inventories also shrank, subtracting over three percentage points from GDP.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Two men left and fired into the restaurant from the outside, shattering windows and striking two teenagers.
    David Ferrara, Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The crash’s giddy prequel, dramatic unfolding, and shattering aftermath—the Great Depression—has long provided compelling material for writers.
    John Cassidy, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • By aggregating the right data features and triangulating multiple points of affirmation, situational certainty grows strong, enabling confident real-time actions that drive business outcomes.
    Bill Waid, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Meanwhile, aggregating the GPU ecosystem into one platform could more significantly highlight the price disparity between the options and drive customers towards the cheaper neoclouds.
    Rachyl Jones, semafor.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • One raid saw masked federal agents repelling from Black Hawk helicopters and wrecking an apartment building.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The wrecking-ball style is the way King played even at Longview (Texas) High, where his father was the coach, and didn’t coddle or protect his son, as Dickey remembers.
    Seth Emerson, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • It was intended as a visual aid for journalists like me accompanying the team of scientists measuring the pace at which water flows off this glacier.
    NPR, NPR, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The sculptural heel on the patent leather pumps measures around four inches, but Ferragamo also offers the style in a shorter version, with a kitten heel measuring two inches.
    Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2025

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“Totaling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/totaling. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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