How to Use tabulate in a Sentence

tabulate

verb
  • 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 | [email protected], 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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