totalize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Present
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totalizesimple
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totalizessimple
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have totalizedperfect
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has totalizedperfect
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am totalizingprogressive
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are totalizingprogressive
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is totalizingprogressive
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have been totalizingperfect progressive
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has been totalizingperfect progressive
Past
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totalizedsimple
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had totalizedperfect
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was totalizingprogressive
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were totalizingprogressive
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had been totalizingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of totalize
Example Sentences
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As yet, no work of popular culture has arrived that crystallizes, totalizes and polarizes the way Moore’s movie did.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2020
For reason annihilates and imagination completes, integrates or totalizes; reason by itself alone kills, and it is imagination that gives life.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)
His latest, which attests to his status as one of the most intellectually game writers of our time, is a totalized counterfiction of post-1492 world history.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2021
“In American literature we have been so totalized — as though there is only one version. We are not one indistinguishable block of people who always behave the same way.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2019
The ultimate goal is a totalized system: first, a complete analysis of your surfing abilities; then all the measurements for the perfect board; and, finally, a wave designed precisely for you.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 10, 2018
The man, the artist, the individual, is effaced in these great masses, which lack the name of their author; human intelligence is there summed up and totalized.
From Notre-Dame De Paris by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
Still stooping, he seized the mace, which everyone except he had forgotten, and swung; swung with all the totalized and synchronized power of hands, wrists, arms, shoulders, and magnificent body.
From Triplanetary by Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)
But another writer comes to mind as well—the Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, whose 1958 “The Leopard” offers a layered totalizing portrait of a society that is both changing and failing to change.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
At the same time, when thinking about this concept of the end of the world, it’s not a totalizing event, it’s more of a spectrum of things that people experience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2023
Which brings us to the final law: All of a supervillain's hired goons are considered to have the same totalizing physical and ideological dedication to their career, and as such:
From Salon ● May 14, 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
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 Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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