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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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Each cabinet is numbered, and the whisky is housed in a Glencairn crystal decanter.—
Jonah Flicker,
Robb Report,
20 Mar. 2026 -
Hernán Cortés and his few hundred Spanish soldiers did not, despite the legend, by themselves conquer the Aztec Empire, whose population numbered in the millions.—
David A. Bell,
The New York Review of Books,
19 Mar. 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 22 Mar. 2026.
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