NUMBERING Synonyms: 75 Similar and Opposite Words

numbering

verb

present participle of number

as in counting

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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Relevance

as in aggregating

to have a total of the full-time staff numbers 30 people

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as in including

to have as part of a whole is numbered among the great minds of our times

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Recent Examples of numbering The move is also expected to increase capacity, a growing consideration as the academy’s ranks have expanded significantly in recent years, now numbering more than 11,000 members. —

Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 26 Mar. 2026 But tireless efforts by conservationists and Indigenous tribes helped save the bison, numbering less than a thousand at the nadir, from the same fate of its Pleistocene peers. —

Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 20 Mar. 2026 Those presentations, which also are given to owners at the December Board of Governors meeting, have become less and less controversial over time, with suspensions numbering fewer and fewer. —

Pierre Lebrun, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026 The book features the names of all the authors, numbering near 10,000, followed by a series of empty pages, which protest organizer Ed Newton-Rex told Deadline symbolizes the future for novel writing if large-language artificial intelligence models continue to scrape their work. —

Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 10 Mar. 2026 Visitors on whale-watching tours often see dolphin pods with animals numbering in the hundreds as well as sea lions and sharks. —

Nora Heston Tarte, Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2026 Quivering along the frill of brownish gray and whitish yellow stripes skirting her foot, the epipodial tentacles are pale silver and waving, numbering over a hundred, electrifying her whole body with tastes, smells, vibrations from above, behind, everywhere. —

Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026 Attorneys for the plaintiff, Kathy Morehart of Texas, allege Morehart and others who are part of a potential class of victims numbering in the thousands relied on OpenLoop to keep their private health information confidential. —

Clark Kauffman, Iowa Capital Dispatch, 20 Feb. 2026 Their continuous efforts involve coalition members regularly appearing at city council meetings and a deluge of emails, now numbering nearly 22,000, continually bombarding city hall. —

Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 7 Feb. 2026

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Despite outside chatter about fraud, the arguments in court focused on whether the law allowed counting late-arriving ballots.

— Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026
Double-digit seeds won a total of five games in this tournament (not counting the play-in round).

— CBS News, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026