add (up)

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Verb
  • That same year, a coalition of school districts, now numbering more than two hundred, filed suit against the voucher expansion.
    Alec MacGillis, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
  • These trips, numbering five this winter, are about connection, friendship, relaxation, and play—without having to plan a thing.
    Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 13 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • While totaling 35 points on 12-of-23 (52.2 percent) shooting from the field and 7-of-15 (46.7 percent) from three-point range in Monday’s first quarter, the Heat found itself ahead by as many as 13 points in the opening period.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Still under a minutes restriction in just his second game back following a two-plus-month absence due to a torn right abdominal muscle, Banchero continued to play 5- to 6-minute stints to total 27.
    Jason Beede, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • But Zach Kass, a futurist who spoke at The Pet Industry Leadership conference in Florida this week, explained that the cost of units of AI are declining much faster than computing power has typically dropped in the past.
    Richard Kestenbaum, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Quantum stocks – Quantum computing stocks gained after Microsoft unveiled its quantum-ready plan aimed at preparing businesses for the rise of quantum computers.
    Sean Conlon, CNBC, 15 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Students hail from a plethora of countries including Haiti, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Russia, Ukraine and too many to enumerate.
    Gary Stern, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
  • The Pacific Commercial Advertiser, once the largest daily newspaper in Hawaii, ran a large chart in 1900 enumerating the miles women walked in the course of their housework, and the Washington Evening Star ran a similar accounting of an office carrier’s travels in a day.
    Jacqueline D. Wernimont, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • Southern California has long endured devastating fires, with the Palisades and Eaton fires counting as two of the most destructive blazes in its history.
    Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Jan. 2025
  • President-elect Donald Trump has frequently counted the U.S.-led coalition victory over the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria as one of the most consequential achievements of his previous administration.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 19 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • On October 7, the anniversary of Hamas’ attack on Israel in 2023, CBS News executives told staffers that Dokoupil’s report failed to meet the network’s standards.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 14 Jan. 2025
  • After each fight, a film tells a history: steamy Aztec jungles, pueblas and markets, scenes of battle and revolution, all building toward a futuristic cityscape meant to show what Mexico could become.
    Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Arsenal have tabled an offer of a professional contract but the 18-year-old defender is yet to commit his future to the north London club.
    James McNicholas, The Athletic, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Graves had to file a discharge petition to bring the bill to the floor for a vote, which faced some pushback from other Republicans who attempted to table the legislation.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Box-office analysts had predicted the 2024 box office would lag significantly behind the $9 billion tallied in 2023.
    Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 15 Jan. 2025
  • After tallying 506 receiving yards in the first three games, his recruiting stock skyrocketed, and high-profile Division 1 programs took notice.
    Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Jan. 2025
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“Add (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/add%20%28up%29. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.

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