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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
He’ll apparently risk dozens of full-grown proteges for one unproven tot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025
They're starting to tot up against the hosts now.
From BBC ● Apr. 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
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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Add in some fried potatoes, like French fries and tater tots.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 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
TV tots in that time were generally being prepped for adulthood; their misadventures led generally, and gently, to lessons learned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2025
He pointed at the tater tots and our smashburgers, then around Chubzies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
When he was younger, he’d sit at the bar and eat tater tots or grilled cheese while his dad laughed and held court for hours at a time.
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
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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
And in Ancelotti they have a coach with the Midas touch, in charge of players who have totted up so many wins in this competition and know how to get the job done.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 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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Plus: Federal cyber help for water plants; totting up security regulations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
The season-by-season improvement so far means Arsenal have gone from totting up just 56 points in 2019-20 to posting 89 points last season.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2024
Another visitor from Australia, Tony Cosford, was busy totting up the figures.
From Reuters ● Sep. 26, 2022
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
“Want a milkshake?” he asked, mentally totting up the cash in his pocket and thinking that he should probably send Brad to dicker with the assayer again soon.
From Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow