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racked up

verb

past tense of rack up

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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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 Bucky Irving ran for 106 yards and two touchdowns as the Bucs racked up 258 yards on the ground on 49 carries, and Tampa Bay's defense forced four turnovers in Sunday's 43-13 rout of the division rival Carolina Panthers. — ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026 One of the two fake videos racked up roughly 857,000 views within 24 hours, according to an analysis by Alethea, a threat intelligence company. — Shannon Bond, NPR, 24 Oct. 2026 In IconArrows pointing outwards October sprint A majority of the net gain in points between the August 2025 low and now has been racked up this month. — Alex Crippen, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2026 Litke has racked up a team-high 104 tackles with 10 for loss and a sack. — Michael Osipoff, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026 Unsurprisingly, video of the incident racked up millions of views (and just as many opinions). — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 22 Oct. 2026 While the Rebels racked up nearly 500 yards, Missouri’s prolific running game was held to a season-low 39 yards. — Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 18 Oct. 2026 The Rebels racked up 257 yards on the ground in large part because of the efforts of Kewan Lacy and backup Makhi Frazier. — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026 The source series, a Vidio original, has racked up more than 34 million views on the streamer. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026

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Kinney, a 6-3, 190-pound native of Newport, Kentucky, scored 14 points on 5-of-15 shooting (2-of-6 beyond the arc, 2-of-2 from the line) with three steals and one assist in 32 minutes on Sunday.

— Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 26 Oct. 2026
The Dolphins eventually scored again, and the moment passed, but the clock management from the coach was curious.

— Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2026

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Zhang fell into the water four times and achieved a maximum distance of only 20 meters (66 feet).

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 2026
The Roadster also did not fly any appreciable distance, landing short of even the 120 feet the Wright Brothers achieved during their first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903.

— Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2026

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Meanwhile, national Republicans are attempting to mobilize the state’s conservative voters around Marshall in a state Trump won with 57% of the vote in 2024.

— Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2026
In 2022, Lula summoned his old populist magnetism, built a coalition large enough to defeat Bolsonaro, and won a third term.

— Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of won

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No Israeli party has ever attained the 50% share needed to control parliament by itself.

— Hannah Ridge, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2026
The researchers demonstrated the benefit of using different atoms by maintaining quantum entanglement for 10 seconds as against a few milliseconds attained with the same set of atoms.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2026

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Google’s agent debuted this spring and since then has expanded access, added more connections to a range of sources, and gained new visibility as part of the Gemini app’s redesign.

— Marty Swant, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026
From a career-high 155 yards from Javonte Williams to the defense making just enough stops to allow the offense to do its thing, the Cowboys gained a little bit of their swagger back in the City of Brotherly Love.

— Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Oct. 2026

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