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 Sarah Jones, New Republic, 13 Dec. 2017 The very idea of a reputation for fairness is obsolete before this totalizing partisanship.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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  • FinCEN also specifically added domestic companies—those entities formed in the U.S.—to the list of exempted entities.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
  • The film added $3.7 million from 3,369 theaters, dropping a painful 57% from its debut.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 23 Mar. 2025
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  • But for those who don’t have time, the judge summed everything up in these two sentences.
    Samantha Riedel, Them, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Legendary Vegas female impersonator Hot Chocolate summed it up best.
    Lawrence Yee, People.com, 18 Mar. 2025
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  • Just imagine: estate planners breathing easy, CPAs not chained to their desks for 80 hours a week, and appraisers not calculating business valuations in their sleep.
    Darren T. Case, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • As of Friday, the Lamont administration had not begun the painful process of calculating what Trump’s assault on economic sense would likely cost.
    Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 29 Mar. 2025

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“Totalize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/totalize. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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