enumerating

present participle of enumerate
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as in counting
to find the sum of (a collection of things) by noting each one as it is being added there were more birds hovering about the bird feeder than I could possibly enumerate

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3
as in listing
to make a list of let's enumerate the top ten reasons why Top Ten lists have gotten out of hand

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  • Line of the week is Benito reciting a snippet of Pablo Neruda in Spanish.
    Sara Netzley, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Less convincing are some of the dramatically hefty scenes involving Dillon’s Horn, who seems, at times, to be reciting his dialogue rather than fully embodying it.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
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  • The team is counting on him to bring a stabilizing presence after a tumultuous 2024-25 season that saw the team miss the playoffs for the first time since 2021.
    Jonas Siegel, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Watkins counting up his touchdown total in merriment on the sideline and Dart staying in the game until well in the fourth quarter were haunting images for Arkansas faithful and the team.
    Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 12 Sep. 2025
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  • Nick Sadek, the Sotheby’s International Realty broker, is also a listing agent on the property.
    John Turton, Sacbee.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Leslie had been discovered deceased in her upstairs bathroom, with the autopsy listing her official cause of death as blunt force trauma.
    Claire Lempert, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2025
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  • Kennedy has also recently cleaned house in the CDC’s critical advisory committee, which makes vaccine policy recommendations to the CDC’s director, including those outlining who should get vaccinated, with what vaccines and at what age.
    Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Since the discovery of PFAS, town officials — who are elected volunteers — feel there hasn't been a lot of guidance from the state, other than outlining that something needs to be done to bring the PFAS levels down.
    Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • White House chief of staff Susie Wiles held an emotional meeting with staff on Wednesday after the assassination, telling members to go home and hug their families, the Wall Street Journal reported.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • With his latest weigh-in blunder, there's no telling whether Dana White, who has publicly criticized Gastelum for his egregious weigh-in mishaps in the past, will cut the longtime vet.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
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  • Firefighters have finished inventorying homes and buildings in Rico and are now focused on building a contingency line to protect the town in the unlikely event the fire burns over Anchor Mountain.
    Katie Langford, Denver Post, 13 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • After weeks of detailing her social and mental health struggles with Character.
    Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2025
  • While detailing the first in-person meeting between her and Rodríguez, Pascal spoke about the specific rhetoric that trans actors sometimes come up against, which is that trans actors should connect with trans subjects based solely on identity, rather than the many other aspects of their humanity.
    Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • As noted by Tax Notes, millions of sports gamblers are not aware that this deduction only applies to those who are itemizing their deductions, leading to significant tax non-compliance.
    Nathan Goldman, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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“Enumerating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enumerating. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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