Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for add (up)
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Five of them will be white balls numbered 1 to 69.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr,
USA Today,
21 May 2026 -
The Clipper was previously called the NV100 Carry, numbering it neatly as the smallest in a van family that also includes the Caravan (NV350).—
C.C. Weiss
May 19,
New Atlas,
19 May 2026
Verb
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Cruises, casino cash withdrawal and overseas trips The affidavit said Storey used the church credit card account to pay for one or more cruises totaling $77,025.—
Judy L. Thomas,
Kansas City Star,
10 June 2026
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In future canvases, the Registrar will examine Conditional Voter Registration (CVR) and provisional ballots, which total about 5,000.—
Steve Scauzillo,
Daily News,
10 June 2026
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The engineer was the cofounder of Wang Laboratories, which helped propel computing into the office with its line of word processors.—
Alex Knapp,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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This approach to text generation shifts the bottleneck from memory bandwidth to compute, generating up to 256 tokens in parallel.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
10 June 2026
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Design for systems that can absorb a surprise, not systems that assume surprises can be enumerated.—
Aditya Vikram Kashyap,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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Morris was closemouthed about her origins, but enumerated her various conditions with a kind of doleful enjoyment.—
Stephen King,
The Atlantic,
15 May 2026
Verb
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Eventually, the Golden Knights scored goals that counted.—
Chris Johnston,
New York Times,
7 June 2026
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Cleverly shot, the film made good use of its taut 74-minute running time (not counting commercials, of course).—
David Morgan,
CBS News,
7 June 2026
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Benjie Ancheta, police chief of Alabel town in Sarangani in the Philippines, told Reuters that the police building had some cracks immediately after the quake, which occurred during their flag-raising ceremony.—
Kathleen Magramo,
CNN Money,
8 June 2026
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The suspect is likely the father of the two children, police told ABC-7.—
Noah Goldberg
Follow,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2026
Verb
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In the end, the commissioners voted to table the decision, citing liability concerns.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
14 May 2026
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Six hours into that meeting, board members by a 5-2 vote decided to table discussing Lawrie’s departure until May 1.—
Sofi Zeman
May 6,
Kansas City Star,
6 May 2026
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Roughly 23,000 ballots remain to be tallied, with the majority of the vote count expected to be completed by Friday, said Ken Casparis, a county elections spokesperson.—
Reeti Malhotra
June 9,
Sacbee.com,
10 June 2026
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Jay Thammavongsa paced Eastview with 11 kills, while Brice Dehnel tallied 18 assists.—
Pioneer Press,
Twin Cities,
10 June 2026
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“Add (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/add%20%28up%29. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.
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