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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The people delivering the actual service would be New York’s child-care workers, who number some forty thousand, seventy-five per cent of whom identify as nonwhite women.—
Molly Fischer,
New Yorker,
5 Feb. 2026 -
Five of them will be white balls numbered 1 to 69.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr,
USA Today,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Count (up to).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/count%20%28up%20to%29. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
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