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adds (up)

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present tense third-person singular of add (up)

as in numbers

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These protests attracted the interest of the Council of Europe, the international organisation set up in 1949 to uphold human rights and the rule of law in Europe which now numbers 46 members, including the United Kingdom.

— Matt Slater, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Launched in 1973 in Scotts Valley, the Erik’s empire now numbers 29 restaurants and stretches from the Monterey Peninsula to Sacramento County.

— Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 1 Sep. 2026

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But with a new staff and so many new faces across the coaching staff and offensive roster, even what eventually counts as real growth might be slow.

— Jeff Zrebiec, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
And honey was never hard to come by—her family counts six generations of beekeepers in it.

— Lauren Valenti, InStyle, 9 Sep. 2026

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Filled out with vintage archive that supplements the portrait built here of the irrepressibly charming Jarman and his highly talented team of collaborators, this easily tallies up as more than the sum of its parts.

— Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2026
Player of the Week Senior outside hitter Quinn Grevengoed tallies 92 kills and 15 aces in seven matches and then is named MVP for host Chicago Christian as Knights take tournament title for first time since 2014.

— Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2026

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Adler’s version, as elegant and lyrical as Fisher’s, enumerates ways to use every last scrap, bone, and core—and introduced her as a writer who made art out of the marginal.

— Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
Zuckerberg enumerates one of these very specifically, and in my view, this is one of the biggest contributions of this essay.

— John Werner, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025

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