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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  • With estimated sales totaling €32 billion and a growth rate between 4-6% for 2025, jewelry seems to be enjoying its brightest summer yet.
    — Milena Martins-Alexandre, Vogue, 6 July 2026
  • He’ll also be required to pay annual property taxes, and the Unified Government will use those funds to pay out remaining bond debt, totaling more than $6 million, taken out to initially build the property.
    — Sofi Zeman July 3, Kansas City Star, 3 July 2026
Definition of totaling
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  • As massive investments in artificial intelligence and data centers have spurred demand for computing hardware, Chinese manufacturers are capitalizing on the opportunity.
    — Stephanie Yang, CNN Money, 15 July 2026
  • These solar panels would generate 150 kW of peak power and 120 kW of average power for computing.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 15 July 2026
Definition of computing
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  • For years, school administrators across the system used flawed methods to track graduation rates, often counting students who had transferred to other schools as dropouts.
    — Savannah Peters, Fortune, 13 July 2026
  • Both of these typically tokenize data into 1D or 2D sequences, which makes simple spatial tasks unnecessarily difficult—like counting unique chairs in a short video, or remembering what a room looked like an hour ago.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 13 July 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 19 Jul. 2026.

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