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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  • The report included upward revisions totaling an extra 84,000 jobs added in August and September, meaning the labor market had been stronger in those months than previously thought.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Its memory directory contained 413 files across 225 folders, totaling nearly 978,000 characters.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of totaling
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  • Motors, actuators, computing hardware and power electronics generate heat while performing demanding tasks.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Right now, that future is heavily steeped in artificial intelligence and requires extraordinary amounts of energy and computing infrastructure to run his AI agents, robots, self-driving vehicles, and more.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of computing
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  • Results will be updated as counties continue counting ballots.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Campbell and the Thunderbolts weren’t interested in a repeat performance when counting down the days to the rare back-to-back matchup.
    — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 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 9 Nov. 2026.

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