totalize
verb (used with object)
to make total; combine into a total.
totalizing
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present participleof totalize.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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The resurgence of totalizing ideologies among the young has a lot of smart people puzzled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
I couldn’t help but read this latest Jansen novel through the lens of critic Parul Seghal’s recent piece in the New Yorker arguing against the totalizing quality of the “trauma plot” in contemporary fiction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2022
Only with Ellie, Arezu avers, could she “acknowledge my yearning for Omar openly without being confronted with a totalizing narrative of the unequal power dynamic that had existed between us.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2021
His whole life was in this community, and that seemed like a totalizing expression of all the ideas that Adam and Rebekah and Miguel were putting forward.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2021
The need of totalizing, of simplifying, will bring about the general use of such graphic methods as permit of series and comparisons.
From Amiel's Journal by Mrs. Humphry Ward
