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The spending that was originally anticipated for the fourth quarter is pushed forward tot the first quarter of 2026.
From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2025
A homeless services center is in the works too, and a tiny tot playground, torched several months ago, will be rebuilt in the new year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2024
When you tot up the balance of alleged irreparable harms here, it isn’t even a close call.
From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2024
The unforced errors continued to tot up from Murray and it helped Etcheverry, still playing at a high level, cruise to only his second win at Melbourne Park.
From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2024
They brought the barrel and poured out a generous tot for the Questing Beast “Poor creature,” said King Pellinore indignantly.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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Lamb Weston, based in Idaho, has a market value of close to $6.5 billion and is a major producer of frozen-potato products including french fries, hash browns and tater tots.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026
Pair it with fresh-baked french fries or tater tots and an assortment of dips, whether that’s hot sauce, salsa or melted queso.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2025
He pointed at the tater tots and our smashburgers, then around Chubzies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
"Henry missed out on a lot of social interaction, going to mum and tots groups and things like that," she said.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2024
There was a nursery school for the tiniest tots, a boon to the mothers working six-day weeks during the war.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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This is, after all, a player who scored twice in the Club World Cup final less than six months ago, and across the two seasons prior to this one totted up 37 Premier League goals.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026
But Anisimova was annoyed with herself too, as she totted up 44 unforced errors to Pegula's 21 and made seven double faults.
From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026
An on-air graphic totted up the final score: 34 guilty, 0 not guilty.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2024
Zookeepers tempted squirrel monkeys onto scales, totted up tarantulas and used a curry-scented measuring stick to coax Sumatran tigers to stretch out.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2023
Now I totted up numbers this way and that.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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He has scored in 14 straight games for his country, totting up 27 goals in the process.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
We might worry about the quantities of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases totting up in the atmosphere, or feel increasingly nervous about tiny, naked-to-the-eye particles of pollution, especially in car-choked cities.
From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2021
Their own insularity prevents no one in this book from totting up the ethical and empathic deficits of others.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2019
She goes quiet, as if she's totting up the years in her head.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2014
Who would go to the trouble of totting up extra figures for trifles of that sort?
From The Poor Plutocrats by R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain