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By full-time, BBC Sport pundit and former Arsenal defender Martin Keown was joking a calculator might be needed to tot up the number of times Room had bailed his team out.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
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
Here’s a hint: If you can substitute a noun for the ing word—departure in place of going, for example, or habit tot smoking—then treat it like a noun.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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While Mic Drop offers some of the food you’d typically find at a karaoke lounge such as tater tots, truffle popcorn and pizza, the venue has some surprising options as well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
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
"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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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
When all the trimmings are totted up, a family Christmas is set to cost £31.66 in 2024, down from last year's figure of £32.18.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2024
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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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
After totting up the newborn neurons in each section, he tapped the number into a statistics program.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 4, 2015
Plaid Cymru has added 200 people, taking its total to 8,000, while the Green Party has added 3,721, totting up to 66,573.
From BBC ● May 15, 2015
And now do please go on totting up, and let’s get these casks shifted ’fore your uncle comes back.”
From The Adventures of Don Lavington Nolens Volens by Fenn, George Manville