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count (up to)

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Definition of count (up to)

as in to number

to have a total of that counts up to a pretty sum over the course of several years

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Hughes’s move to Liverpool was bound up in Edwards’ return, so his days at the club were numbered once Edwards grew disillusioned over FSG’s reluctance to commit to a multi-club ownership model.

— James Pearce, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
The cuts come to a health care system that once numbered 6,500 primary healthcare facilities and 300 public hospitals, but that already was decimated in the first year and a half of war.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026

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