add (up)

verb

Definition of add (up)next
as in to number

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for add (up)
  1. number
  2. total
  3. compute
  4. enumerate
  5. count
  6. tell
  7. table
  8. tally
Verb
  • While a nonstop parade of human beings moves through this space every day, raccoons numbering in the hundreds are moving back and forth among this static urban architecture above us.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026
  • Spearheaded by film commissioner Marysela Zamora, the market expects to host 900 business meetings among a host of international players numbering some 350, an uptick from last year’s 275.
    — Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 13 July 2026
Definition of number
Verb
  • Open a Chase Total Checking account and make direct deposits totaling $1,000 or more within 90 days of offer enrollment to earn $300.
    — Dan Avery, CNBC, 15 July 2026
  • In the past two seasons, Denver’s receivers have totaled 351 targets (on 612 attempts in 2025) and 359 targets (on 570 attempts in 2024).
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 15 July 2026
Definition of total
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • The other side of the coin here is those who only want to question the integrity of the country, or only want to enumerate its deals with the devil, that’s not healthy either.
    — Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2026
  • Though deferred action dates back at least to President Richard Nixon, Meissner issued a memo in 2000 enumerating 13 factors that immigration agents should consider before deporting someone.
    — Lauren Villagran, Miami Herald, 2 July 2026
Definition of enumerate
Verb
  • Zachary Perry, parliamentarian for NPU-V counts votes to recommend against a City of Atlanta change that would allow a data center to be built in Adair Park on Monday, April 13, 2026.
    — Zachary Hansen, AJC.com, 15 July 2026
  • The main studio is Room 1, and all the contestants start there, competing to accurately count the grains in a bag of rice.
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 14 July 2026
Definition of count
Verb
  • After the game, a team source not authorized to speak publicly told The Athletic that Coulombe had been designated for assignment.
    — Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 12 July 2026
  • Oman has drafted a tentative proposal to manage traffic in the strait, a source told CNN.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 12 July 2026
Definition of tell
Verb
  • But with Farage's fiercely anti-EU Reform UK party (previously called The Brexit Party) seeing major success in recent local elections, and Brexit still a divisive issue for the country, few politicians have indicated any will to even table the idea of holding another referendum.
    — Frank Andrews, CBS News, 23 June 2026
  • After a judge blocked the plan and as bipartisan backlash grew, the fund seemed to be tabled.
    — Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 June 2026
Definition of table
Verb
  • While still holding on to his identity as a pitcher who goes right at hitters, Wrobleski tallied 20 strikeouts over his last two starts of the first half.
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026
  • But with the Marlins tallying just two extra-base hits and pitcher William Kempner allowing two runs in an eighth inning that unraveled quickly, another solid start went unrewarded.
    — Tyler M. Carmona July 11, Miami Herald, 12 July 2026
Definition of tally
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