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as in indictment
a formal claim of criminal wrongdoing against a person
she's been charged with two counts of larceny
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as in to tell
to find the sum of (a collection of things) by noting each one as it is being added
count the baseball gloves in the storage locker to see if there are enough to go around
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as in to matter
to be of importance
punctuality and a neat appearance count during a job interview
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as in to rely
to place reliance or trust
I'm counting on you to show up tomorrow to help me move
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as in to exclude
to prevent the participation, consideration, or inclusion of
I don't feel well, so count me out for the party tonight
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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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Recent Examples of count
Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
LaDamian Keith Hill, 43, of Pontiac, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder in their deaths.
—Andrea May Sahouri, Freep.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2025
Not all philosophers are willing to count these disturbances of an animal’s serene environment or personal space as an invasion of privacy.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2025
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Noun
The trial also resulted in five other convictions of hospital and provincial health officials for concealment and omission-of-duty counts, the Buenos Aires Times and Chequeado reported.
—Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
LaDamian Keith Hill, 43, of Pontiac, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder in their deaths.
—Andrea May Sahouri, Freep.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
In the last inning, every run counts as a point.
—Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2025
Not all philosophers are willing to count these disturbances of an animal’s serene environment or personal space as an invasion of privacy.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for count
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The final tally for Weymouth came on a two-yard run late in the third as senior Jackson Frasca found paydirt.—
Brian Roach,
Boston Herald,
7 Sep. 2025
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Sombr and Billie Eilish Share the Top 10 Both Sombr and Eilish claim multiple spaces inside the top 10 on the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs tally.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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In each case, magistrate judges had already found probable cause to proceed with the charges forward, yet jurors opted not to return indictments.—
Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
4 Sep. 2025
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In one especially high-profile case, prosecutors charged a DC man captured on video throwing a sandwich at a federal agent with a misdemeanor offense after failing to convince a grand jury to return a more serious felony indictment against him.—
Josh Meyer,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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Just a reminder the score was 48-21 when Harbaugh told his kicker to chill.—
Jay Paris,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Their score doesn’t measure their ability.—
Sixteen Ramos,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The judge sentenced Johnson to 180 days for each of the four disorderly conduct charges, to be served concurrently, which was credited as time served.—
Miguel Torres,
AZCentral.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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Ultimately harmless, this was the piece of the bomb that would ignite the charge in the main body of the projectile.—
Michael Jerome Plunkett
September 5,
Literary Hub,
5 Sep. 2025
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Gardin was intuitively interested in class, and undertook census-like studies, along the lines of August Sander’s taxonomy of social types, of Italians from all parts of society at work and in their homes.—
Max Norman,
New Yorker,
6 Sep. 2025
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The report taps dozens of data sources, including the census, Bureau of Labor Statistics and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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Pulte’s most consequential allegations thus far were made against Cook, a Federal Reserve governor.—
Robert Faturechi,
ProPublica,
6 Sep. 2025
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Savage has only returned to the screen once since the allegations.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Count.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/count. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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