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Recent Examples of Synonyms for adding (up)
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In an effort to tamp down that expense, Clary agreed in December 2022 to allow Bush to retain and exceed the maximum, then totaling 332 hours, with a secondary agreement that Bush would use the vacation time over the next couple of years.—
Craig Shoup,
Nashville Tennessean,
1 Oct. 2025 -
The San Diego Union-Tribune tallied every settlement and judgment the county paid out between January 2020 and May 2025 totaling $25,000 or more, the threshold that requires the Board of Supervisors to sign off on a payout.—
Lucas Robinson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Sep. 2025
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The work drew on major detector upgrades, accelerator innovations, and computing power from Berkeley Lab’s NERSC facility and Brookhaven’s data centers.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Sep. 2025
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These include chip design firm Arm, high-performance computing company Applied Digital, cloud services company Nebius Group, and biotech company Recursion Pharmaceuticals.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
28 Sep. 2025
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“Adding (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adding%20%28up%29. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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