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as in counted
to find the sum of (a collection of things) by noting each one as it is being added
number those apples and tell me how many you have
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as in averaged
to have a total of
the full-time staff numbers 30 people
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as in included
to have as part of a whole
is numbered among the great minds of our times
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Recent Examples of numbered
This case numbered among the 22 financial crimes Alex pleaded guilty to.
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Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026
By noon, people numbered in the hundreds.
—James Verini, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026
Five of them will be white balls numbered 1 to 69.
—Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 11 May 2026
Each is numbered and comes with a certificate of authenticity.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 10 May 2026
But the days of gift-shop-adjacent museum cafés serving dusty scones are numbered.
—Christine Muhlke, Air Mail, 9 May 2026
The lottery system uses 1,001 ping-pong balls numbered 1-14.
—Jason Anderson, Sacbee.com, 9 May 2026
For each of the two drawings, 14 ping pong balls, numbered 1 through 14, are placed in a lottery machine.
—Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 4 May 2026
Each pair is individually numbered through 300.
—Riley Jones, Footwear News, 2 May 2026
Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026
By noon, people numbered in the hundreds.
—James Verini, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026
Five of them will be white balls numbered 1 to 69.
—Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 11 May 2026
Each is numbered and comes with a certificate of authenticity.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 10 May 2026
But the days of gift-shop-adjacent museum cafés serving dusty scones are numbered.
—Christine Muhlke, Air Mail, 9 May 2026
The lottery system uses 1,001 ping-pong balls numbered 1-14.
—Jason Anderson, Sacbee.com, 9 May 2026
For each of the two drawings, 14 ping pong balls, numbered 1 through 14, are placed in a lottery machine.
—Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 4 May 2026
Each pair is individually numbered through 300.
—Riley Jones, Footwear News, 2 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for numbered
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The goal also counted an assist for Rooney, who earned her first ever point in the PWHL.—
Staff Report,
Twin Cities,
9 May 2026
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Votes are still being counted, but heavy losses for Labour are expected to raise questions about Prime Minister Keir Starmer's already shaky leadership.—
Chloe Taylor,
CNBC,
8 May 2026
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So far this year, homes over $1 million have averaged 62 days on the market, much higher than the 24-day average in 2022.—
Sara B. Hansen,
Denver Post,
10 Apr. 2026
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Rodriguez’s fastball averaged 94 mph, which is down from his average of 96 mph in his first game of the spring.—
Jeff Fletcher,
Oc Register,
8 Mar. 2026
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Iran's proposal included a demand for compensation for war damages and an emphasis on Iranian sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz, state media said.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
12 May 2026
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Health officials said the Maryland residents were on a flight that included a passenger from the MV Hondius cruise ship who was infected with hantavirus.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
12 May 2026
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Trump asked before Cignetti and his players told him Ponds was at training camp.—
Antonio Morales,
New York Times,
12 May 2026
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Robert Penn Warren’s 1946 novel is the story of the rise and fall of a Southern populist, the Louisiana governor Willie Stark—a fictional Huey Long (even if Warren downplayed the likeness)—as told by Stark’s wisecracking, anguished, Hamlet-y henchman, Jack Burden.—
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
12 May 2026
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The suited style was comprised of a tuxedo, bowtie and cummerbund.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
9 May 2026
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This open architecture system is comprised of multifunction control consoles and Remote Terminal Units (RTU).—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
9 May 2026
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The 28-year-old pleaded guilty to possessing the destructive device, which contained flammable ethanol and a wick designed to ignite when lighted.—
Ruben Vives,
Los Angeles Times,
7 May 2026
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When Federal Reserve officials convened on March 17-18, just a few weeks after the war broke out, Chair Jerome Powell said any effects on inflation would likely be temporary and could be contained within the energy industry, keeping the door open for at least one rate cut this year.—
Bryan Mena,
CNN Money,
7 May 2026
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Every edit, regeneration, and follow-up question a worker fires into a frontier model is training data, aggregated across hundreds of millions of users and tens of billions of conversations.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
29 Apr. 2026
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One of my most valuable resources was a website that aggregated the lines across all sportsbooks and tracked the micro-movements in real time.—
McKay Coppins,
The Atlantic,
12 Mar. 2026
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The Beechwood mobile home park in Killingworth has about 300 homes, and all are reserved for people 55 years and older, but the decision only applies to the nearly 200 homes involved in the complaint.—
Ginny Monk,
Hartford Courant,
9 May 2026
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Fear of getting involved in an incident led some students to avoid public transit altogether.—
Oren Peleg,
New Yorker,
9 May 2026
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“Numbered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/numbered. Accessed 14 May. 2026.
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