as in adding
to combine (numbers) into a single sum
he toted up each person's costs to see what we had spent as a group
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But Setser sees problems with the country’s economic program that won’t go away even if that happens – adding more layers of risk to the US intervention.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
12 Oct. 2025 -
Rattler completed 20 of 26 passes for 227 yards while adding another 20 yards scrambling.—
Chad Graff,
New York Times,
12 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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“Toting (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toting%20%28up%29. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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