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summing

verb

present participle of sum

as in adding

to combine (numbers) into a single sum can sum figures in his head faster than I can punch them into a calculator

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Recent Examples of summing Speaking time per person was calculated by summing the duration of each of their utterances and excluding silent gaps. — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 1 June 2026 There’s no better way of summing them up. — Phil Hay, New York Times, 25 May 2026 Each nanocluster has its own field, but those fields start out all pointing in random directions, summing to zero. — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Jan. 2018

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Options considered during the analysis included drilling holes in the existing piles and adding more steel inside, or widening the pile caps so more piles could be added on the outside.

— David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2026
Rounding out the promotion is the Gosoul2 Pro Dual Motor, available for US$799 with code NATLBTS, adding another dual-motor option to the Back to School lineup.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Aug. 2026

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The blue line is the actual MACD and is calculated by subtracting the 26-period exponential moving average (EMA) from the 12-period EMA.

— Zev Fima, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2026
If employees cannot function well when the system is unavailable, the technology is subtracting value even as the metrics suggest otherwise.

— Mohamed Khater, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026

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