add

verb

ˈad How to pronounce add (audio)
Definition of addnext
1
as in to attach
to join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increase the band recently added a saxophonist and a keyboard player to its ranks add another cup of flour to the mixture

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2
as in to calculate
to combine (numbers) into a single sum when she added all the phone charges herself, she discovered an error in her bill

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Recent Examples of add While discussing the vows with her cohosts, George Stephanopoulos and Michael Strahan, Roberts added that Swift and Kelce's neighbors and high school friends were also among the attendees. — Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 6 July 2026 The cropped length and elbow-skimming sleeves keep things cool while brown buttons add visual interest. — Claire West, PEOPLE, 6 July 2026 The team acquired right-hander Woo-Suk Go from the Detroit Tigers on Sunday and will add him to the major-league roster on Tuesday, a team source said. — Dan Hayes, New York Times, 6 July 2026 In January, CyCognito introduced discovery of externally reachable MCP servers, adding them to external attack-surface inventories. — Janakiram Msv, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for add
Recent Examples of Synonyms for add
  1. attach
  2. calculate
  3. introduce
  4. sum
  5. insert
  6. count
  7. affix
  8. compute
Verb
  • The Department of Homeland Security spokesperson previously told The Times that a child attached to a parent’s immigration case does not lose the claim upon turning 18, but said that a pending asylum application doesn’t confer legal status.
    — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
  • No studio is attached, but sources say Universal likely will get a first crack at it given its relationship with Platinum Dunes and Blumhouse Atomic Monster.
    — Justin Kroll, Deadline, 9 July 2026
Definition of attach
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  • Instead of being calculated on a per-worker basis like the minimum wage fee, the hospitality wage fee would charge each eligible hotel and entertainment venue a flat annual fee of $2,131.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2026
  • Market capitalization is the total dollar value of a company’s outstanding shares of stock and is calculated by multiplying the current share price by the total number of outstanding shares.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 8 July 2026
Definition of calculate
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  • As for interrupting the flow of play, Arena says the three-minute hydration breaks FIFA has introduced each half — ostensibly for player welfare, but in practice to give the TV networks additional commercial breaks — have been more disruptive.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026
  • As the match went on, realising that his team had the upper hand in possession, Solbakken introduced technical wingers from the bench in Oscar Bobb and Andreas Schjelderup to better dictate the flow of play.
    — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 11 July 2026
Definition of introduce
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  • The solution Ciufolini proposed decades ago while working with physicist John Archibald Wheeler was to use two satellites in supplementary orbits, meaning with orbital inclinations that sum to 180 degrees.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 10 July 2026
  • To sum it up, DirecTV is the best option for watching HBO Max at no cost, through its five-day free trial (choose between the MyEntertainment package and Premier package).
    — Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 10 July 2026
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  • The launch materials are full of claymation selfies, custom postcards, and pets inserted into famous paintings.
    — Gabriel Alin Zainescu, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • Unlike conventional launches that depend on nearby naval vessels or coastal infrastructure, the new method allows crews to insert an uncrewed boat directly into contested or hard-to-reach waters.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 8 July 2026
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  • After the runoff election, a European Union observer mission praised the transparency and efficiency of the vote-counting process.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 July 2026
  • Peters, of course, said that since ballots weren’t hand-counted, the results were — again — subjected to fraudulent voter machines altering the tally.
    — The Denver Post Editorial Board, Denver Post, 7 July 2026
Definition of count
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  • Historically, the council has affixed amendments to a bulletin board in council chambers.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2026
  • About 10 minutes later, the Long March 10B booster descended from space and guided itself into a four-legged frame affixed to an offshore vessel.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 10 July 2026
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  • This dramatically lowers the cost of deployment and increases operational flexibility, and shift the bottleneck of physical systems such as robotics from hardware engineering to compute scaling.
    — Anjana Susarla, Forbes.com, 9 July 2026
  • The move comes as Meta simultaneously plans a new cloud computing business to sell excess capacity, even as investors remain skeptical of its roughly $145 billion capex forecast and the company's lag behind AI leaders OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 9 July 2026
Definition of compute

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