as in to add
to combine (numbers) into a single sum when we totalized our restaurant receipts for a month, the result was a little startling

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Recent Examples of totalize If privacy pays, great, but if totalizing control pays more, then so be it. Tim Wu, The New York Review of Books, 24 Mar. 2020 As a rule, the more abstract and totalizing the ideology, the more blood that follows in its wake. chicagotribune.com, 7 Mar. 2018 Our tug of war over what is important and what is irrelevant reveals something unsettling: a bent toward totalizing ideologies and a seismic struggle over which one gets to lay claim — in our minds, at least — to the center of the universe. Carina Chocano, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2017 Its claim to moral superiority rests on the totalizing depravity of the opposition. Sarah Jones, New Republic, 13 Dec. 2017 The very idea of a reputation for fairness is obsolete before this totalizing partisanship. David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2017 Its claim to moral superiority rests on the totalizing depravity of the opposition…. Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 15 Dec. 2017 Fortunately, the video was a less, to borrow nifty jargon, totalizing experience. Alfred Soto, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2017
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  • One that adds intermittent darkness, for instance, practically forces you to stand still for a few seconds until the lights flip back on (too slowly for my comfort).
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Graduate-student unions, which now represent more than 150,000 students nationwide, add another layer of uncertainty.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2025
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  • Oliver Wainwright, in The Guardian, sums it up well.
    Matt Shaw, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Michigan’s Danny Wolf perhaps summed things up best.
    Brendan Quinn, The Athletic, 22 Feb. 2025
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  • This ratio is calculated as the percentage of net stocks repurchased relative to total market cap.
    GuruFocus, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Because that period’s homeless count increased, the mortality rate — calculated as 3,326 deaths per 100,000 people — increased less, at 1.3%.
    Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2025

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“Totalize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/totalize. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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