as in adding
to combine (numbers) into a single sum
had worked as a clerk in a countinghouse, mainly casting up long columns of figures every day
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Victoria captioned the post, adding a heart emoji.—
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In the future, every object could carry its own unforgeable signature, adding a layer of trust that is literally built into its molecular structure.—
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The leap from knots to links is a relatively small one, but mathematicians can extend the ideas of knot theory to study mind-bending concepts such as higher-dimensional knots, surfaces with knotted edges and difficult-to-imagine objects obtained by subtracting a knot from three-dimensional space.—
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Business inventories also shrank, subtracting over three percentage points from GDP.—
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“Casting (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/casting%20%28up%29. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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