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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Victoria captioned the post, adding a heart emoji.—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
20 Oct. 2025 -
In the future, every object could carry its own unforgeable signature, adding a layer of trust that is literally built into its molecular structure.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Oct. 2025
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The leap from knots to links is a relatively small one, but mathematicians can extend the ideas of knot theory to study mind-bending concepts such as higher-dimensional knots, surfaces with knotted edges and difficult-to-imagine objects obtained by subtracting a knot from three-dimensional space.—
Emma R. Hasson,
Scientific American,
3 Oct. 2025
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Business inventories also shrank, subtracting over three percentage points from GDP.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Sep. 2025
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Audiences might enjoy this cinematic sleight of hand, but the key characters are such single-minded, calculating individuals that the real magic would be to find any heart in this tale.—
Kirk Honeycutt,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Oct. 2025
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Such incidents could potentially occur due to things such as an error in calculating the takeoff weights or a faulty maneuver by the pilots, as well, Corriere della Sera noted.—
Becca Longmire,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Summing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/summing. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.
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