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 Sears’ American stores, once numbering in the thousands, have dwindled to a single-digit number, giving way to business forecasts that anticipate the company could shutter at any moment. —

Domenica Bongiovanni, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026 The Ngogo community, numbering roughly 200 individuals, fractured into rival clusters that researchers identify as Western and Central. —

Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026 Researchers documented the fish ascending waterfalls up to approximately 15 meters high, often in groups numbering in the thousands. —

Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 9 Apr. 2026 Wormuth, who served as Army secretary during the Biden administration, said securing the sites could demand extensive engineering support -- including heavy construction equipment -- as well as a significant security force, potentially numbering in the hundreds of troops per location. —

Chris Boccia, ABC News, 27 Mar. 2026 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

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Verb

For those keeping track, that would be six consecutive road games counting the regular season, play-in tournament and then the first two playoff games.

— Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2026
The difference between counting down the minutes and barely noticing the time often comes down to what’s in your carry-on.

— Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2026