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By full-time, BBC Sport pundit and former Arsenal defender Martin Keown was joking a calculator might be needed to tot up the number of times Room had bailed his team out.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
The spending that was originally anticipated for the fourth quarter is pushed forward tot the first quarter of 2026.
From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2025
A homeless services center is in the works too, and a tiny tot playground, torched several months ago, will be rebuilt in the new year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2024
When you tot up the balance of alleged irreparable harms here, it isn’t even a close call.
From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2024
I told every mother whose tot I watched that her child was the best baby in town.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
Add in some fried potatoes, like French fries and tater tots.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026
Lamb Weston, based in Idaho, has a market value of close to $6.5 billion and is a major producer of frozen-potato products including french fries, hash browns and tater tots.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026
TV tots in that time were generally being prepped for adulthood; their misadventures led generally, and gently, to lessons learned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2025
“There was a big downturn in Redlands,” he said while munching on tater tots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
She was surrounded by three other tiny tots, all with big floppy bows.
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
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This is, after all, a player who scored twice in the Club World Cup final less than six months ago, and across the two seasons prior to this one totted up 37 Premier League goals.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026
But Anisimova was annoyed with herself too, as she totted up 44 unforced errors to Pegula's 21 and made seven double faults.
From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026
An on-air graphic totted up the final score: 34 guilty, 0 not guilty.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2024
Zookeepers tempted squirrel monkeys onto scales, totted up tarantulas and used a curry-scented measuring stick to coax Sumatran tigers to stretch out.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2023
Now I totted up numbers this way and that.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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Plus: Federal cyber help for water plants; totting up security regulations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
He has scored in 14 straight games for his country, totting up 27 goals in the process.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
Another visitor from Australia, Tony Cosford, was busy totting up the figures.
From Reuters ● Sep. 26, 2022
We might worry about the quantities of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases totting up in the atmosphere, or feel increasingly nervous about tiny, naked-to-the-eye particles of pollution, especially in car-choked cities.
From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2021
Who would go to the trouble of totting up extra figures for trifles of that sort?
From The Poor Plutocrats by R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain
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