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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
Five of them will be white balls numbered 1 to 69.
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Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026
Rather than give in to triskaidekaphobia (the fear or avoidance of 13), the crew is embracing it, or at least their connection to the last US launch to be similarly numbered.
—Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 27 Apr. 2026
This season just might be lost, and with Bichette holding an opt-out clause, his days might be numbered.
—Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2026
But the reality could be that Nick Castellanos’ days with the Padres are numbered.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
But his days in the City of Brotherly Love are almost certainly numbered.
—Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 24 Apr. 2026
The largest bird in North America, the condor, numbered fewer than two dozen in the wild in the 1980s.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
And the Iranians know that Trump’s days in office are numbered, with Vance, a war skeptic, possibly in line to succeed him.
—Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
Friday, the number of searchers numbered 130.
—Logan Smith, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2026
Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026
Rather than give in to triskaidekaphobia (the fear or avoidance of 13), the crew is embracing it, or at least their connection to the last US launch to be similarly numbered.
—Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 27 Apr. 2026
This season just might be lost, and with Bichette holding an opt-out clause, his days might be numbered.
—Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2026
But the reality could be that Nick Castellanos’ days with the Padres are numbered.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
But his days in the City of Brotherly Love are almost certainly numbered.
—Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 24 Apr. 2026
The largest bird in North America, the condor, numbered fewer than two dozen in the wild in the 1980s.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
And the Iranians know that Trump’s days in office are numbered, with Vance, a war skeptic, possibly in line to succeed him.
—Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
Friday, the number of searchers numbered 130.
—Logan Smith, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for numbered
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He was instructed to respond by moving his eyes from left to right, and sure enough, the researchers counted two rightward movements of his eyes.—
Shayla Love,
New Yorker,
1 May 2026
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That total doesn’t include tornadoes counted by the NWS office in Topeka, such as the EF2 that hit Ottawa on April 13.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
1 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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Though former head coach Kyra Elzy was still at the helm at Kentucky at the point of O’Neal’s recruitment, O’Neal named UK as one of eight finalists in high school; the list also included Arizona State, Baylor, UCLA, Georgia Tech, LSU (her father’s alma mater) and Tennessee.—
Caroline Makauskas,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2026
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There were three years where the award was shared because of a tie in the voting, and two of those included Duke players Elton Brand and Grant Hill.—
Schuyler Dixon,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Apr. 2026
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Murmurs of possible tactics abound—including more talk within the administration of the DPA after Anthropic’s Mythos announcement, one person with knowledge of such discussions told us.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
27 Apr. 2026
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The story of the site, which was subsequently bought by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp in 2005, is told in MySpace, a documentary directed by Tommy Avallone and produced by Gunpowder & Sky, the company founded by former MTV boss Van Toffler.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
27 Apr. 2026
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The Great Divide had healthy physical sales, around 175,000; however, streaming led the Vermont native’s ascent to the top — streaming units comprised 212,000 of the total 389,000 first week equivalent album units.—
Nicole Fell,
HollywoodReporter,
3 May 2026
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Fort Worth bond package Fort Worth citizens will have their say on an $845 million bond package comprised of six separate propositions aimed at funding a wide range of infrastructure and community projects.—
Steven Rosenbaum,
CBS News,
1 May 2026
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The authors argued that the typical American diet contained excessive calories and fat and lacked sufficient amounts of complex carbohydrates and dietary fiber.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
30 Apr. 2026
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Burick and one of his students assemble the base for one of ENIAC’s three portable function tables, which contained banks of switches that stored numerical constants.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
30 Apr. 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 incident May 1 involved a bulk carrier southwest of Al Mukalla, Yemen, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations service.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
2 May 2026
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Sleep stages differ in important ways, Monika Schönauer, a sleep researcher at the University of Freiburg, who wasn’t involved in the study, told me.—
Shayla Love,
New Yorker,
1 May 2026
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“Numbered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/numbered. Accessed 4 May. 2026.
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