as in classifying
to arrange information in an organized way so that it can be studied, recorded, etc.
Officials tabulated the scores. A machine is used to tabulate the votes.
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Recent Examples of tabulating
Legislators passed a law two years ago that set that deadline, but then failed to find a replacement for tabulating votes.
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ABC News,
23 June 2026
That’s 10 years of farming around idle pump jacks and tabulating acres damaged by fluid leaks.
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Adriana Pérez,
Chicago Tribune,
22 June 2026
The dispute stems from legislation passed in 2024 that prohibited Georgia from using QR codes as the official method of tabulating votes after July 1, 2026.
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Zachary Bynum,
CBS News,
14 June 2026
When county workers finished tabulating votes on election night, the gap between the two was eight percentage points.
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David Zahniser,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2026
But voters and residents are not tabulating a national income accounting exercise when a project appears down the road.
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James Broughel,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2026
This story has been updated to reflect what lawmakers must do to comply with a law doing away with QR codes as the method of tabulating votes.
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Caleb Groves,
AJC.com,
14 May 2026
Earlier Wednesday morning, about a half dozen election workers were still tabulating more than 50,000 ballots in the county elections office, pizza boxes scattered on nearby tables.
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Sarah Bahari,
Dallas Morning News,
4 Mar. 2026
In prior years, her office typically began tabulating early votes the Saturday before Election Day.
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Samantha Ketterer,
Houston Chronicle,
3 Mar. 2026
ABC News,
23 June 2026
That’s 10 years of farming around idle pump jacks and tabulating acres damaged by fluid leaks.
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Adriana Pérez,
Chicago Tribune,
22 June 2026
The dispute stems from legislation passed in 2024 that prohibited Georgia from using QR codes as the official method of tabulating votes after July 1, 2026.
—
Zachary Bynum,
CBS News,
14 June 2026
When county workers finished tabulating votes on election night, the gap between the two was eight percentage points.
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David Zahniser,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2026
But voters and residents are not tabulating a national income accounting exercise when a project appears down the road.
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James Broughel,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2026
This story has been updated to reflect what lawmakers must do to comply with a law doing away with QR codes as the method of tabulating votes.
—
Caleb Groves,
AJC.com,
14 May 2026
Earlier Wednesday morning, about a half dozen election workers were still tabulating more than 50,000 ballots in the county elections office, pizza boxes scattered on nearby tables.
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Sarah Bahari,
Dallas Morning News,
4 Mar. 2026
In prior years, her office typically began tabulating early votes the Saturday before Election Day.
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Samantha Ketterer,
Houston Chronicle,
3 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tabulating
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About a week before Illinois passed its law classifying prediction markets as sports betting operators, the CFTC proposed new rulemaking that lays out how the commission would manage its exclusive control over regulating these markets.
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The British meteorological service has issued a rare red warning for extreme heat in the days forward, classifying the coming wave as a risk to life.
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Detecting bots requires analyzing patterns in user data, including transaction and payment signals, purchase speed, buying patterns and credit card activity, rather than relying on just a single indicator.
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Vaughn Dalzell and Drew Dinsick look at USA's odds for the stage of elimination, analyzing how far Mauricio Pochettino's squad can go.
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Acting President Rodríguez said on state television that a presidential commission was assessing the state of housing and infrastructure damaged by the quakes.
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Alphonse Provinziano, managing partner of Provinziano & Associates law firm in Beverly Hills, also pointed to the mismatch in wealth in assessing possible spousal support for Kelce.
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Groff, who worked for Epstein for nearly two decades, was a central point-person in arranging the bookings with Amex, documents released by the Justice Department earlier this year indicated.
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The libraries that spent two years arguing that AI companies could not take their work without paying are now arranging to be paid for appearing inside the products built on top of them.
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“Tabulating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tabulating. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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