as in counting (up to)
to have a total of
a lifetime of charitable contributions that sum into the millions
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numbering
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While there’s not a plethora of information available about Lee, there is a legacy of what the Shakers — now numbering three members in Maine’s Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village — left behind, from journals, text, hymns and, in particular, furniture and architecture.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
20 Jan. 2026 -
We were understood to belong to our own sovereign tribal nations (then numbering well over 750), many of which were geographically inside yet civically separate from the growing American republic.—
David Treuer,
The Atlantic,
13 Jan. 2026
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“Summing (to or into).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/summing%20%28to%20or%20into%29. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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