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when we totalized our restaurant receipts for a month, the result was a little startling
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If privacy pays, great, but if totalizing control pays more, then so be it.
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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The very idea of a reputation for fairness is obsolete before this totalizing partisanship.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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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The very idea of a reputation for fairness is obsolete before this totalizing partisanship.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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“Totalize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/totalize. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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