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 Sarah Jones, New Republic, 13 Dec. 2017 The very idea of a reputation for fairness is obsolete before this totalizing partisanship.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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  • Marchand’s arrival in Florida truly feels like the perfect ‘add’ by Zito, a GM Maurice often credits for always knowing the perfect players who will fit into the culture and style the Panthers want to play.
    Michael Russo, New York Times, 15 June 2025
  • Thunderbolt 5 adds lots of extra bandwidth, as well as supporting up to 240 watts of power delivery.
    Luke Larsen, Wired News, 15 June 2025
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  • To sum it up: this lump of aluminum is very good at cosplaying as its sturdy diesel predecessor.
    Peter Nelson, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
  • The way Montjuic erupted when Fermin Lopez scored what should have made the match safe at 5-3 — his effort was disallowed for handball — summed it all up.
    Pol Ballús, New York Times, 12 May 2025
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  • Using statistical methods, the researchers calculated 6,029 excess deaths in the most permissive states between 2011 and 2023, compared with the number of deaths that would have been expected under the states’ pre-McDonald rules.
    Tribune News Service, Twin Cities, 21 June 2025
  • Based on the ozone forecast and sunlight angle, a computer calculates the strength of UV radiation at ground level.
    Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 June 2025

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