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as in coming (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 counting (up to)
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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While there’s not a plethora of information available about Lee, there is a legacy of what the Shakers — now numbering three members in Maine’s Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village — left behind, from journals, text, hymns and, in particular, furniture and architecture.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
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We were understood to belong to our own sovereign tribal nations (then numbering well over 750), many of which were geographically inside yet civically separate from the growing American republic.—
David Treuer,
The Atlantic,
13 Jan. 2026
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Rescue teams, comprising experts from SARA, HM Coastguard Chepstow, and Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service, worked together to lower a firefighter to the ledge where the dog was trapped.—
Desiree Anello,
PEOPLE,
21 Jan. 2026
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The suspects were identified and arrested by a task force comprising multiple agencies across Colorado and the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Office in California.—
Austen Erblat,
CBS News,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Adding up (to).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adding%20up%20%28to%29. Accessed 26 Jan. 2026.
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