tabulation

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Recent Examples of tabulation The Porter County Election Board worked through some minor kinks with the county’s new voting equipment during the election certification at noon on Friday in the tabulation room of the Elections & Registration Office. Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2026 The candidates and their attorneys asked a federal judge to scrap vote-tabulation machines and order votes to be counted by hand at the precinct level. Shane Harris, The Atlantic, 14 May 2026 In an industry long known for counting the number of people who watch TV shows and the commercials that accompany them, Fox is starting to place new emphasis on a different sort of tabulation. Brian Steinberg, Variety, 7 May 2026 Bay County tends to release results from pre-Election Day voting at the end of the vote tabulation process, while Midland and Saginaw counties release them throughout the night, along with results from in-person Election Day voting. CBS News, 4 May 2026 Ballots must arrive back to the city (not the county) by June 2 to count in the tabulation. The Editorial Board, Daily News, 30 Apr. 2026 How could tabulation of the 1890 census possibly be finished before the next census had to be done in 1900? Paul Edward Parker, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026 Even at that young age, Alexander learned the importance of a fair and efficient tabulation process. Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026 Many justices voiced concerns about a Mississippi law being challenged by the RNC for allowing tabulation of absentee ballots that arrive as late as five days after polls close. Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 23 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tabulation
Noun
  • The drafts were messy, but, in reality, so, too, were the handwritten ones—their own version of chaos with arrows, enumerations, and strikethroughs.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 May 2026
  • There are new reports citing the leaderboard-style enumerations of Challenger, Gray and Christmas, which suggest that U.S. tech layoffs are now at their worst year-to-date point since 2023, with approximately 52,050 job cuts this year 2026, 18,720 of them in March.
    John Werner, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The most consequential classification disagreement is over South Korea.
    Garth Friesen, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
  • Even under broader classifications, California data does not show administrative spending approaching 50% of education funding.
    James Ward, USA Today, 15 May 2026
Noun
  • Commodity analysts and strategists have sounded alarms that European oil shortages could emerge within weeks as inventories deplete as a result of disruptions to the Strait of Hormuz.
    Dylan Butts, CNBC, 19 May 2026
  • Radar’s technology provides real-time data on inventory to help retailers and brands maximize sales, provide better customer service, and more effectively replenish, order and allocate merchandise.
    David Moin, Footwear News, 19 May 2026
Noun
  • But experts said this categorization neglects key hormonal and metabolic components of the condition.
    Jenna Anderson, Health, 13 May 2026
  • Experts say this fluidity could fuel the industry’s aim to expand beyond borders and neat categorization.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 2 May 2026
Noun
  • There’s a risk that boards, and the world in general, are over-indexing on the CEO as the one who is going to make all this happen.
    Diane Brady, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2026
  • China is always a flip of the coin in terms of over- or under-indexing.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 21 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Since the 2000s, researchers have added a new set of tools, including ethnographic in-site analysis, image and video codification techniques, phenomenological interviewing, and big data collecting techniques.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The pillars of Hungarian-style family policy, which Vance repeatedly praised, are nowhere near codification in America.
    Idrees Kahloon, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2026

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“Tabulation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tabulation. Accessed 20 May. 2026.

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