tally
noun
an account or reckoning; a record of debit and credit, of the score of a game, or the like.
tallied
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past participleof tally.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof tally.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
tallynounan account or reckoning; a record of debit and credit, of the score of a game, or the like.
Example Sentences
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Forty-six of the cases tallied by The Post involved Flock equipment.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
Observer missions called for parties to tone down inflammatory statements as the votes cast on Thursday were tallied, and some teams extended their deployment because of the tensions.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
Early Thursday morning, a 110-year-old underground pipe burst, spewing 17 million gallons of water through portions of West Hollywood and flooding businesses, homes and garages, with the damage still being tallied.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
Through Tuesday’s close, a Goldman Sachs basket of high-beta momentum stocks tallied its biggest five-session selloff since 2020.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
I had bought a few paperbacks on abnormal psychology at the drugstore and compared my symptoms with the symptoms in the books, and sure enough, my symptoms tallied with the most hopeless cases.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
