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adding (up)

verb

present participle of add (up)
as in totaling

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  1. totaling
  2. computing
  3. counting
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  • There was no guarantee Williams would even get a card(s) totaling that $515 spot purchase.
    — Jon Root OutKick, FOXNews.com, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Nearly half of survey respondents reported premium hikes totaling 50% or more over the past five years.
    — Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of totaling
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  • Shares of Microsoft are up fractionally Wednesday, bucking the broader market declines and weakness in cloud-computing peers Amazon , Google and Oracle .
    — Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2026
  • In 2009, Salesforce made history as the first cloud computing company to achieve $1 billion in annual revenue.
    — Srinivas Velamoor, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of computing
Verb
  • In Kenya, this actuarial approach manifested as weeks spent in a Land Rover, counting herds of zebra with a handheld mechanical tally counter in my right hand and binoculars in my left.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Sean John Combs, as of this writing, is inmate number 37452-054 and counting down the days of his sentence at Fort Dix, a low-security federal prison in New Jersey.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of counting
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“Adding (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adding%20%28up%29. Accessed 28 Sep. 2026.

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