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Recent Examples of Synonyms for adding (up)
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Tired legs left Charlotte’s shots ricocheting off the front rim, with Mingo totaling eight points on 3-of-12 shooting, and Bradford notching 12 points on 33% shooting from the field.—
Hunter Bailey,
Charlotte Observer,
14 Mar. 2026 -
Adebayo followed his mother’s directions and more, totaling 83 points for the second-highest individual scoring performance in NBA history to lead the Heat to a win over the Washington Wizards on Tuesday at Kaseya Center.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
14 Mar. 2026
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That includes a new central computing rack made up of central processing units (CPUs) rather than the graphics processing units (GPUs) Nvidia has been known for.—
Hadas Gold,
CNN Money,
16 Mar. 2026
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Shortly afterwards, Conyngham, an AI expert and electrical and computing engineer who co-founded Core Intelligence Technologies and served as a director for the Data Science and AI Association of Australia, immediately set to work once UNSW completed the $3,000 genomic sequencing for Rosie.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Mar. 2026
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Not counting that pandemic year, the 22 wins are the most ever by an SDSU team not to play in the postseason.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Mar. 2026
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The new trees number in the thousands — at least 4,000 per acre or as many as 20,000, depending on who is counting.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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“Adding (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adding%20%28up%29. Accessed 19 Mar. 2026.
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