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 Sarah Jones, New Republic, 13 Dec. 2017 The very idea of a reputation for fairness is obsolete before this totalizing partisanship.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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  • New production adds just a few hundred fresh vehicles a month.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Take a page from Prada’s book, and use them to add an unexpected burst of color to an otherwise neutral look.
    Christina Holevas, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2025
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  • Kubilius sums it up with one fact: as things stand today, Russia can produce more weapons in three months than all the NATO member states, including the U.S., can produce in a year.
    Tamar Jacoby, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Wrexham co-owner Rob McElhenney perhaps summed it up best after the weekend victory over Stockport County, the fourth time in five league outings that Phil Parkinson’s side had won 1-0.
    Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
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  • The reciprocal rates, which aren’t exactly reciprocal, were calculated by dividing a country’s trade deficit with the US by its exports to the country and multiplying by 1/2.
    Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Opta’s Premier League Predictor, which projects the final standings by simulating the remaining games thousands of times to calculate an average outcome, gives Brighton a 17.3 per cent chance of finishing seventh or higher.
    Andy Naylor, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025

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“Totalize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/totalize. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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