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adds

verb

present tense third-person singular of add

as in introduces

to join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increase the band recently added a saxophonist and a keyboard player to its ranks add another cup of flour to the mixture

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as in calculates

to combine (numbers) into a single sum when she added all the phone charges herself, she discovered an error in her bill

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Recent Examples of adds Echoes of that ensemble’s style can be heard in this group, which adds a conga player to a standard jazz foursome. — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2026 Nearby Toranomon Hills adds plenty of upscale shopping to the itinerary, along with local eateries like apothéose and Frey’s Pizza. — Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 30 Sep. 2026 The sophisticated pink tint adds a light touch of color that blends easily into your natural lip shade. — Tim Chan, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2026 At a time when the major exhibitors are in town for Cinema United’s Fall Summit, Sony made a slew of release date adds and changes Wednesday. — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2026 Once launched, the app may display a wide, iPad-like interface, the report adds. — Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 30 Sep. 2026 The lidar study adds another potential application for airborne laser technology. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026 The money is deposited to the commissary accounts of those who work for him, the story adds. — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2026 An available upgrade kit included on the orange show model adds two side windows, a opening roof hatch window and a 145-W solar panel for €3,950 ($4,500). — New Atlas, 23 Sep. 2026

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Ayad introduces these characters through the categories the institution uses to understand them.

— Zain Khalid, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026
In Brittle Magic, Newbery honoree Kate O’Shaughnessy introduces us to a young girl in a similar predicament.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of introduces

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Contrary to the traditional labor theory of value, which calculates the value of a good or service through the amount of labor required to produce it, Poliks and Trillo posit latency and delay to be the true sources of value.

— Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
The team calculates that doubling the battery capacity and deploying next-generation solar coatings could transform the drone’s operational footprint.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of calculates

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Thousands of Ukrainian deaths over this period because of too few military provisions sums it all up.

— Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 6 Sep. 2026
This communal spirit sums the vibe at Daisy Chain Fields, a one-day festival in Irvine, California, celebrating women in the arts.

— Brendan Hay, SPIN, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of sums

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In April 2026, the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee found that advanced AI had not yet been adopted in a way that presented systemic risk but warned that risks could increase rapidly as deployment expands.

— Swati Deepak Kumar, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026
The new law expands California’s definition of who is a resident under state sales tax law in an effort to weed out phony shell companies, making a company liable for state taxes when at least one member of the business is a California resident.

— Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of expands

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Not that this strictly counts as stand-up comedy, but certainly a lot of it is in that sphere or involves those skills.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 1 Oct. 2026
His people seem to have learned to leverage these speculative supertools to influence politics, communication, finance, and what counts as truth itself.

— Simon Denny, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of counts

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So runs a typical sentence in Schattenfroh, as the bristlingly Latinate precariously appends two subordinate clauses, and leaves not so much a pleasant ring in the ear as a strenuous grinding of gears.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Feb. 2026
Spivack recommends the use of authentication software such as Content Credentials, developed by the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity, which appends metadata about provenance to images and videos.

— Nikita Ostrovsky, Time, 20 Oct. 2025

Definition of appends

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Claude rewrites the relevant part of the query in Wolfram Language, Wolfram computes the result and Claude builds its response around that number instead of predicting it.

— Mateusz Mucha, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Moreover, revisions to the way the Bureau of Economic Analysis computes the personal consumption expenditures price index are expected to take inflation readings issued earlier this year lower.

— Jeff Cox, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of computes

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