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as in to come (to)
to be the same in meaning or effect
whether we take the 4:00 train or the 4:15 bus, it adds up to the same thing: they both get us back too late
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as in to number
to have a total of
even if we pool all our money, it won't add up to enough to rent a beach house for a week
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The people delivering the actual service would be New York’s child-care workers, who number some forty thousand, seventy-five per cent of whom identify as nonwhite women.—
Molly Fischer,
New Yorker,
5 Feb. 2026 -
Five of them will be white balls numbered 1 to 69.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr,
USA Today,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Add up (to).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/add%20up%20%28to%29. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.
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