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 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 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 Sarah Jones, New Republic, 13 Dec. 2017 The very idea of a reputation for fairness is obsolete before this totalizing partisanship.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 Its claim to moral superiority rests on the totalizing depravity of the opposition…. Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 15 Dec. 2017 Fortunately, the video was a less, to borrow nifty jargon, totalizing experience. Alfred Soto, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2017
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  • Prime Video added more this season with pressure alerts, defensive vulnerabilities, and the ability to identify if a team is in man or zone coverage.
    Joe Reedy, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
  • The composer’s meeting with Pope Francis two days later added a personal touch to the historic occasion.
    Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2025
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  • Imagine how much value creation is left on the table when summing the contributions from so many uninspiring efforts. Combating a Quitters' Day Culture Undoubtedly, leaders strongly influence whether a quitter's day culture emerges.
    Nate Bennett, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Seth McFarlane’s post, while not particularly effective in combating a natural disaster, sums everyone’s feelings up nicely.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 8 Jan. 2025
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  • For each role, the analysts calculated a composite score.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Each city is different in size and proximity to other population centers, and not everyone calculates economic benefits the same way.
    Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2025

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“Totalize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/totalize. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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