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tabulate

[tab-yuh-layt, tab-yuh-lit, -layt] / ˈtæb jəˌleɪt, ˈtæb jə lɪt, -ˌleɪt /


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They tabulate all the numbers given by various sources including the police, local officials and disaster relief agencies.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

It is part of the Labor Department but operates independently, relying on nonpartisan staff economists who tabulate the numbers without input from the commissioner, the agency’s only political appointee.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

It has 20 scanners to tabulate ballots, all of which will be running on election night.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2024

The state party will tabulate results from all the precincts and release the statewide totals to the public.

From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2024

I was in the midst of writing a novel and he was calling me from it to tabulate the price of groceries.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

PwC is the accounting firm that tabulates the votes.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 12, 2023

When President Trump was elected, the Census Bureau was in the process of changing the way it tabulates race and ethnicity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2022

Here, the media actually assembles the results from 50 states, tabulates them and declares a victor.

From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2020

Michael Lanza, a spokesman for the New York City Health Department, said every deceased person with a lab-confirmed covid-19 diagnosis is being counted in the fatality numbers the city tabulates.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 2020

It applies to everything the scientific method of oft-repeated, painstaking observation, and then tabulates the results and makes deductions from them.

From A Textbook of Theosophy by C. W. (Charles Webster) Leadbeater

Last year, legislators passed a new law that requires votes to be tabulated by the 13th day after ballots close, though it doesn’t change the 30-day deadline for official results and provides several exceptions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

Nearly a third of YouTube’s revenue now comes from its subscription products, while advertising on its free platform generated over $40 billion in revenue last year, MoffettNathanson tabulated.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 9, 2026

Tatiana Edwards, who teaches special-education math at Sierra Sands’ China Lake Junior High School, said she hasn’t tabulated the improvement in grades yet but has noticed students performing better.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025

Polls are closed across many of the East Coast battleground states, and votes are being tabulated at a rapid clip.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2024

All of his volunteer hours would be carefully tabulated at the Hall of Open Records.

From "The Giver" by Lois Lowry

Up until the mid to late 1950s, Social Security records were stored manually or with electromechanical machines, including punched cards and early tabulating equipment.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 16, 2026

As a physician, my focus is roped tightly around a very narrow notion of healing: I follow a blueprint of tabulating signs and symptoms, rendering diagnoses, and setting forth treatments.

From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2024

Upon tabulating the scores, the researchers found that sentiments around air taxis are generally positive among the participants.

From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024

AP plays a central role tabulating results across the country on election nights, using them to declare winners of contested races, along with seeking an in-depth view of what is on voters’ minds.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024

Brian shrugged, tabulating his own totals once more to be sure that Brother Leon wouldn’t blame him for any discrepancies.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier




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