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tabulate

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


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Small businesses will be able to tabulate their taxes and check their eligibility for government-support programs, and parents will receive suggested educational content for their children.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 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

S&P Dow Jones Indices also tabulates how many funds beat the indexes persistently, year in and year out.

From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2022

“We are confident that our system tabulates properly,” said Helen Nolan, the deputy director clerk recorder in San Luis Obispo County.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2021

The accounting firm that tabulates votes for the Oscars — including for best actor — apparently is able to keep a secret.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2021

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

That compares very well to August CD rates tabulated by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

Sports are ideal for new video and communication technologies, as athletic performance is measured by statistics, and that data can be tabulated, synthesized and repurposed for viewers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

By the time all votes were tabulated two weeks after election day, Bass had come out on top, with 43% of the vote compared with Caruso’s 36%.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

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

In his more than a score of years as custodian of the sanctuary there, Maurice Broun has observed and actually tabulated more hawks and eagles than any other American.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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

Election experts say counting ballots by hand isn’t as accurate as machines tabulating the votes.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2024

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

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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