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adds (up)

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present tense third-person singular of add (up)

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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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Despite that shrinking hardware, Fairphone has almost doubled the buds’ battery life, which now totals 40 hours without active noise cancellation, with eight hours on the buds alone, dropping to six with ANC on.

— Dominic Preston, The Verge, 14 Oct. 2026
The Studio’s current slate totals more than 80 titles for over 20 platforms, with many more projects in development.

— Michael Schneider, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026

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The death would be at least the seventh at the Georgia park, including one in 2006 in which a man had a likely heart attack on the Goliath coaster, according to the Doan Law Firm, which tallies amusement park accidents and represents victims.

— Hallie Golden, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
In 2006, when Georgia’s Goliath opened, a man died after likely having a heart attack on the coaster, said Doan Law Firm, which tallies amusement park accidents and represents victims.

— Addy Bink, The Hill, 13 Oct. 2026

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Based on Aira Bonfim’s in-depth research, the short film tells the story of Dona Carlota Rezende, the coach of the pioneering female football team Primavera Atlético Clube, in the 1940s.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
Tasca tells Robb Report that the original developmental vines were obtained through a nursery that sold them only for trial purposes, but then the experiment became part of a larger initiative.

— Mike DeSimone, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 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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