How to Use tabulate in a Sentence

tabulate

verb
Definition of tabulatenext
Synonyms for tabulatenext
  • A machine is used to tabulate the votes.
  • Banks also has to kill time with the dancers while the judges tabulate the results.
    — Lynette Rice, EW.com, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The city is still in the process of tabulating first round results.
    — Robert Yoon, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2023
  • Also, the Grammys take far more time to tabulate the votes than the Oscars do.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 27 Mar. 2019
  • Jill Biden was on the phone yelling at state legislators and the people who tabulate the votes to stop the count.
    — Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2022
  • That means that there are at least 9,200 ballots left to tabulate.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 13 Apr. 2021
  • At the end of the 90 seconds, the winner’s items will be tabulated, and taken home.
    — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Kennedy Lewis scored 19 points over three events and Bryan Jimenez tabulated 18 in just two events.
    — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Investors have been able to cast their votes prior to the meeting, where the vote counts will be tabulated and announced.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The case of different forms of Chinese shows just one way in which tabulating such things is messy.
    — The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019
  • The votes are tabulated, and a process known as winsorization is used to account for outliers — high and low — to smooth the data.
    — Mark Kazlowski, Dallas News, 5 May 2023
  • Once the results are tabulated, the caucus secretary records them on a form and the precinct chair announces them.
    — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Shazam measures how many times a song is searched for on its app; the others tabulate plays on their platforms.
    — M.h., The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Then, after judging closes, the teams tabulate the scores and finalize the lists.
    — Alexandra Sternlicht, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
  • But their case has not been helped by multiple changes to how the numbers are tabulated.
    — David Culver, CNN, 2 Apr. 2020
  • At the end of the festival, all votes are tabulated to determine the winner.
    — Ameunier, oregonlive, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Two hundred years ago, Fredric Accum became the first chemist to tabulate a list of food grievances into a book.
    — Benjamin R. Cohen, Wired, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Turns out, the accountants who tabulate the winners would not skirt the rules, even in an unprecedented year like this one.
    — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 20 Sep. 2020
  • With more people to separate mail-in ballots from envelopes, the time to tabulate them shrinks.
    — Rebekah L. Sanders, azcentral, 11 Apr. 2018
  • City Clerk’s Office staffers would tabulate the results.
    — Paulina Pineda, The Arizona Republic, 26 Aug. 2021
  • At Thursday’s court hearing, Webster said the problems were in how the scores were tabulated.
    — Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 6 July 2023
  • Bond is part of the four-man Louisville crew that tabulates game statistics and punches them into a computer system that sends them out to the world.
    — Jeff Greer, The Courier-Journal, 2 Apr. 2018
  • The party used a smartphone app to tabulate the results, hopefully, to speed up the counting, but the app was overwhelmed, and results were delayed by days.
    — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2020
  • All of these categories are tabulated by the BLS and are listed every month.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Once the votes were tabulated, Cannon, 42, revealed that Dandelion would be the first one to unmask.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 12 Apr. 2023
  • And that hasn't manifested itself in the jobs report yet given the May jobless rate is tabulated through just the middle of the month.
    — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 5 June 2020
  • The machine used to count votes can tabulate both printouts from the ballot marking machines and paper ballots that have been filled out by hand.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 1 June 2022
  • The company makes systems used to manage voting booths and to tabulate the final results from those booths.
    — Shannon Liao, The Verge, 17 July 2018
  • The size won’t be known until those quarterly reports are collected and tabulated, many months away.
    — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Fulton County, which contains most of the city of Atlanta, has long been a Democratic stronghold known for tabulating results slowly.
    — Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 9 Sep. 2024

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