counted

past tense of count
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as in told
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 mattered
to be of importance punctuality and a neat appearance count during a job interview

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Recent Examples of counted Your vote will be counted once your eligibility and registration are verified. — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 12 Oct. 2026 Of the 186 chief executive departures Challenger, Gray & Christmas counted in August, government and nonprofit organizations accounted for 62, more than any other sector. — Anna Maria Chavez, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026 With all the votes counted by the Statistics Office, the centrist ANO (YES) movement led by the populist billionaire has the most, 13, candidates advancing to next week’s runoffs. — ABC News, 11 Oct. 2026 Valdosta’s remains active at five, although the Wildcats did get an unplayed forfeit victory that is not counted. — Todd Holcomb, AJC.com, 11 Oct. 2026 Across the country, the preliminary assessment identified damage to seven hotels, 13 churches, 26 government buildings and four residential apartment buildings, in addition to the homes, schools and healthcare facilities already counted. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2026 Industry research firm SemiAnalysis counted 323 Nvidia GPU providers as of September, up from 209 less than 11 months earlier. — Jordan Novet, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2026 Strongly agreeing about one or more counted as holding the anti-elite attitude. — Thomas Shull, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2026 That changed two weeks ago, when one death was finally counted, and again last week when a second was added to the agency's tally. — Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for counted
Verb
  • Others have been buried by the migrants themselves, but they won't be added to the official count until authorities can verify the bodies, Alexandre Coissac, IOM Chief of Mission in Djibouti, told the Associated Press via the phone.
    — JAMEY KEATEN, Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Rahadian says he was drawn to a story of motherhood told through children whose mother was missing from their lives, set in a moment when a person’s citizenship could be taken away suddenly, by force and without warning.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The lifting was assumed, God was the obvious entity being addressed, but what mattered most was the us, us, us.
    — Abdelrahman ElGendy, Time, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Right around now is when the tailwinds would start to kick in if historical statistics were all that mattered.
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Many off-grid communities have long relied on costly, polluting diesel generators.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Obama himself relied heavily on the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force — passed by Congress under Bush — in his military campaign against Islamic State during his presidency.
    — Christopher Buchanan, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Moore, who is seeking reelection, is considered a potential presidential candidate in 2028.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The fathers of the three friends, who are under 21 and considered minors under Mississippi law, filed the federal lawsuit Monday on their behalf.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Since rates are computed by dividing the number of cases by the population at risk in a specified time period, then by definition, if the number of cases stays the same but the size of the denominator shrinks, the rates will be higher.
    — Nancy Krieger, STAT, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Every decision—what to recommend, what to rank, what to suppress—is computed for that one customer at that one moment.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The bonds quickly fell as investors weighed challenges facing the economically sensitive movie and television businesses, including cord cutting and advertising pressure.
    — Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The calculus echoes comments from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang last month, who similarly argued that AI’s harms should be weighed against the benefits the technology can bring.
    — Robert Hart, The Verge, 5 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Sipahimalani noted that roughly half the stocks in the Russell 3000 were at least 20% below their June highs, highlighting the degree to which the market's resilience has depended on a small group of winners.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
  • As argued in a new piece by nonprofit Stand Up for Stand Up, this evolution of SiriusXM’s comedy programming has been harmful to working-class comics who depended on Raw Dog airplay and the royalties that came with it.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 5 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • First released in celebration of its 250th anniversary, Creed has since extended Aventus into a full collection, and the original is generally regarded as one of the most influential men’s scents of the century.
    — Robb Report, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Though the film is now regarded as one of the greatest works of the 21st century, when Del Toro set out to make it, the industry was not receptive to his ideas.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026

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“Counted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counted. Accessed 14 Oct. 2026.

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