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
  • The details of the bodies are documented and the graves numbered so that family members can return and reclaim them.
    — Bilal Shbeir, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
  • Although the numbers on the chassis were divided into various unrelated intervals, the transmissions appeared to be numbered sequentially, as were the tank guns, heaters, road wheels and turret engines.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 7 July 2026
Definition of number
Verb
  • Officials are still tallying figures from this year’s holiday, but last year wrote 41 citations during the July 4, 2025 celebrations, totaling $300,000 in fines, said Elk Grove Police Department.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 8 July 2026
  • Every individual tea leaf grown at Wild Orchard is plucked by hand, totaling about 100 kilograms per day during peak harvest season.
    — Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 8 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
  • 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
  • An investigation by the Better Government Association’s Illinois Answers Project enumerated the most striking failings of the city’s anti-displacement efforts.
    — David Greising, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 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
  • Beyond Hicks’ contributions, Heriberto Hernandez and Owen Caissie hit home runs, while Lopez and Edwards each tallied a hit, while Jakob Marsee ended the game with a walk-off single in the bottom of the 10th inning.
    — Tyler M. Carmona, Miami Herald, 8 July 2026
  • Officials are still tallying figures from this year’s holiday, but last year wrote 41 citations during the July 4, 2025 celebrations, totaling $300,000 in fines, said Elk Grove Police Department.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 8 July 2026
Definition of tally
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“Add (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/add%20%28up%29. Accessed 15 Jul. 2026.

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