racked up

verb

past tense of rack up
1
as in scored
to gain (as points or runs in a game) as credit towards one's total number of points having racked up a huge number of points in the short program, the figure skater would have to have a disastrous long program in order to miss out on a medal

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2
as in achieved
to obtain (as a goal) through effort racked up their second consecutive Super Bowl victory

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Recent Examples of racked up Continue reading … -- POLITICS IDENTITY HEIST — How a hidden scam plaguing college campuses has racked up a multimillion-dollar price tag. — FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026 Nico Hoerner got the Cubs’ only hit off King with a one-out infield single in the seventh, but King racked up two more strikeouts to earn the last of several standing ovations from the raucous sellout crowd watching his third career playoff start. — ABC News, 30 Sep. 2026 The basics of proper washing dishes and utensils — hot water and sanitizer — were lacking at a West Miami-Dade restaurant that racked up the most state inspection violations in September. — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 29 Sep. 2026 Taylor racked up 360 yards and three touchdowns as the leader of Jeff Lebby’s veer-and-shoot offense. — Pj Green september 27, Kansas City Star, 27 Sep. 2026 The city racked up 53 traffic deaths in 2025, the highest in a decade, and 32 bike/pedestrian and e-scooter deaths. — Barbara Kingsley-Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026 In 2024, the brand launched Get Ready With Music, The Album, a compilation that racked up views and streams in record numbers across Spotify and YouTube. — Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2026 Wideout Lucius Anderson racked up 155 yards of his own on nine catches. — Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 19 Sep. 2026 Jaxon Smith-Njigba racked up the eighth-most receiving yards in a single season in NFL history (1,793) last season, winning Offensive Player of the Year. — Andrew Destin, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
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  1. scored
  2. achieved
  3. won
  4. attained
  5. gained
  6. made
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  • Milwaukee closed to 3-2 in the seventh when Garrett Mitchell scored from third as Cronenworth bobbled Hamilton's grounder and then threw past first for a double error.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2026
  • There was the Dolphins’ play of the day that ultimately wasn’t — a nimble escape from pressure and a dart to Chris Bell, who would have scored a 68-yard TD if one of his toes hadn’t grazed the sideline.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2026
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  • One Russian Soyuz mission in May 2020 was achieved in around 3 hours and 3 minutes.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2026
  • As the researchers explain, the same action can serve several completely different goals, while a single goal can also be achieved through several different actions.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Oct. 2026
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  • Yann LeCun won the 2018 Turing Award—computer science’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize—along with fellow AI researchers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio for their work on deep learning, the neural network technology that underpins today’s AI boom.
    — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Under Kreiz, Mattel also has won new or renewed entertainment licenses, including Disney Princess and Frozen, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Toy Story, KPop Demon Hunters and DC.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026
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  • That show, launched in 2020, attained a cult following — it was named Best Podcasts of the Year by outlets like Vogue, Esquire and Cosmopolitan.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Rabies in humans is completely preventable but medical help must be attained right away, according to the CDC.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 28 Sep. 2026
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  • Pulse oximeters gained prominence during the Covid-19 pandemic, offering anyone a handheld tool to take stock of their blood oxygen level.
    — Anil Oza, STAT, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Gordon gained two yards on a first down run, and Willis then threw errantly on a pressured throw to Jalen Tolbert that would have gone nowhere even if it had been completed.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of gained
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  • Raffles Bali also takes a responsible approach to waste management, using compost fertilizer made from kitchen and landscape waste and repurposing calcium carbonate-rich eggshells from the restaurants for organic fertilizer in the herb garden.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Like prediction markets, their power lay as much in predication as prediction, in legislating what can be asked, priced, and made real—or made valuable as art assets.
    — Simon Denny, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
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“Racked up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/racked%20up. Accessed 7 Oct. 2026.

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