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Recent Examples of Synonyms for adding (up)
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As a shooter — the weakest element of his game over his first 10 appearances — Tatum went 7-for-12 from the field and 3-for-4 from three in the first half, totaling 20 points.—
Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
29 Mar. 2026 -
Over six months, the two sides filed roughly 60 motions totaling nearly 2,700 pages with more than 86,000 pages of exhibits.—
Joe Mahr,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Mar. 2026
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With a snazzy woodgrain finish, HP's new line of OmniDesk towers harkens back to an older era of computing on the outside while delivering modern-age components and performance.—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
31 Mar. 2026
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Sora used huge amounts of computing power, while the app had seen user numbers plateau and was deeply unprofitable, the Wall Street Journal reported.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
31 Mar. 2026
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Despite outside chatter about fraud, the arguments in court focused on whether the law allowed counting late-arriving ballots.—
Michael Smolens,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Mar. 2026
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Double-digit seeds won a total of five games in this tournament (not counting the play-in round).—
CBS News,
CBS News,
29 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 1 Apr. 2026.
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