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"ref": "1922, The Hotel World: The Hotel and Travelers Journal, page 17",
"text": "Should you mistotal a check change the total in pencil and note on your cash sheet the amount over or under totaled as follows: 15 O T for over total and 20 UT for under total as the case or amount may be.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1974, John Edward Murray (Jr.), Murray on Contracts, page 266",
"text": "A mistotals the price resulting in an offer by A to B to sell the lumber at $400 which offer B accepts, some courts might hold that there is no contract for lack of mutual assent.",
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"ref": "2013, Jonathan Meades, Pompey: A Novel",
"text": "Or did he count the same one twice and mistotal?",
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"ref": "2014, Linda S Cordell, Stephen Beckerman, The Versatility of Kinship, page 138",
"text": "Finally, he mistotals the number of men who married into their father's clan group to 34, instead of 33.",
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