Example Sentences

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Tallying the understudied toll of war on human health matters because conflict is “really a political choice,” Flaxman said.

From Salon • Oct. 19, 2024

Tallying the lead isotopes resulted in an age of 4.46 billion years, the oldest age for the lunar crust’s formation yet.

From National Geographic • Oct. 23, 2023

Tallying all the orders for the entire month, Airbus still blew Boeing away on sales — thanks largely to a huge order from China that was finalized unusually swiftly.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 9, 2022

Tallying Haiti’s losses, he presented a bill: $21,685,135,571.48.

From New York Times • May 20, 2022

Tallying them, like etches on a prison wall, will only serve as a reminder of how interminable the coronavirus quarantine is, how insufferably abnormal, each mind-numbing day building unmercifully into a contagion of its own.

From Washington Post • Apr. 16, 2020