tallied

past tense of tally
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as in scored
to gain (as points or runs in a game) as credit towards one's total number of points our team tallied four touchdowns and gained a total of 435 yards last game

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Recent Examples of tallied The Fever were led by the trio of guard Kelsey Mitchell who contributed 19 points and four assists, forward Natasha Howard (12 points, five rebounds), and forward Aliyah Boston who tallied 15 points and five rebounds. Allison Smith, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025 In the Bay State, Caitlin Nugent scored first and Mia Francis tallied the second to lead Braintree to a 2-0 victory over Milton. Tom Mulherin, Boston Herald, 17 Sep. 2025 Within that sun-burst flurry, the MLS rookie tallied four goals across 12 minutes at first-place Vancouver. Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2025 In 421 plate appearances, Mickey Moniak has hit 19 long balls, tallied 57 RBIs and scored 54 runs. Data Skrive, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025 The Patriots failed to consistently make stops Sunday afternoon as Geno Smith tallied 366 yards through the air. Tim Crowley, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025 The Tigers tallied 595 yards of total offense, led by quarterback Beau Pribula’s 334 yards on 30-of-39 passing. Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2025 Brady Powell tallied a team-high 114 yards and a touchdown on 14 attempts. Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Sep. 2025 The defense has held its opponent below 20 points in 11 of 16 games thus far, and five Chargers have tallied at least five sacks this season. Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tallied
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  • Such incidents, in the past, would have had her run home, and write about them furiously in her journal, worried that forgetting them would erase the blessings corresponded to it.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Surprisingly, that surge has corresponded with the team deciding to part ways with franchise slugger Rafael Devers, and several players have stepped up to fill his shoes.
    Peter Chawaga, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Chargers scored on three of their four possessions in the first half, and though the Chiefs’ defense forced a three-and-out to start the second, KC gave up two straight touchdown drives to end the game.
    Pete Sweeney, Kansas City Star, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Rose scored with just over a minute left to provide the final points for Chisholm Trail.
    Chloe Soule’, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • That sentiment has coincided with plummeting sales of Teslas, particularly in Europe.
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Williams, 92, is a Jamaican immigrant with end-stage kidney disease whose roof, parts of which are nine and 19 years old, began to leak after a period of heavy weather in late September that coincided with the passage of Hurricane Helene.
    Mario Ariza, ProPublica, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The House General Investigating Committee, led by Republicans, unanimously agreed to bring forth 20 articles of impeachment.
    Kimberly Ross, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Watching beets grow is almost as bad as eating them, all of us agreed.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The famous Stanford Prison Experiment by Zimbardo revealed how quickly people conformed to roles of power or submission, often at the expense of empathy and fairness.
    Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Columbia, Brown, and the University of Pennsylvania have made deals with the Administration to restore their funding, and other universities have conformed to what the Administration seems to want in order to avoid becoming targets themselves.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • At the time, my wardrobe consisted mostly of neon backless shirts and tank tops, and an eclectic assortment of flip-flops, both formal and informal.
    Alisha Fernandez Miranda, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025

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