as in additional
resulting in an increase in amount or number
ever since his mother got sick, he's had the added responsibility of getting his little sister ready for school
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as in attached
to join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increase
the band recently added a saxophonist and a keyboard player to its ranks add another cup of flour to the mixture
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as in calculated
to combine (numbers) into a single sum
when she added all the phone charges herself, she discovered an error in her bill
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Recent Examples of added
Merve Ceylan,
Health,
28 Jan. 2026
Every added piece brings them closer to the future — which looks pretty promising from this viewpoint.
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Bruce Jenkins,
San Francisco Chronicle,
18 Jan. 2026
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
25 June 2026
Meanwhile, the Rays added two more runs in the fourth inning.
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Kansas City Star,
25 June 2026
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Roasted almonds can contain added salt, fat, and sugar.
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Merve Ceylan,
Health,
28 Jan. 2026
Every added piece brings them closer to the future — which looks pretty promising from this viewpoint.
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Bruce Jenkins,
San Francisco Chronicle,
18 Jan. 2026
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In Japan, chip-equipment makers Tokyo Electron climbed about 7%, Advantest rose more than 4% and Lasertec added over 3%, while SoftBank Group gained around 5%.
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Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
25 June 2026
Meanwhile, the Rays added two more runs in the fourth inning.
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Kansas City Star,
25 June 2026
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During Thursday evening’s Board of Commissioners meeting, officials unanimously, and with no additional discussion, approved Johnston’s exit agreement and named Assistant County Administrator Alan Howze as his replacement for the rest of the year.
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More than a week after the disaster, search-and-rescue operations remain active, though hopes of finding additional survivors are rapidly fading.
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Lying in a hospital bed, the breathing tube attached to her neck sometimes came loose, triggering an alarm.
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Production designer James Price (Poor Things) and costume designer Kate Hawley (Frankenstein) are also attached.
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The weather service also cautions the heat index is calculated for shady areas only.
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Another issue with the heat index concerns the way that it’s calculated.
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Vibrations from earth-moving equipment could have triggered further collapses, possibly dooming Gil — and his would-be rescuers.
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After a couple of disappointing individual time trials in recent Grand Tours, this was a marker of his condition, one that needed to go up a further step from his Giro win.
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On Monday, the Mavericks formally introduced May as their new head coach; it was announced last week, but May met with the media on Monday along with team president of basketball operations, Masai Ujiri.
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Four years later, Israel was effectively ejected from the Asian Football Confederation following a resolution introduced by Kuwait that passed 17 to 13, with six abstentions.
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The late Bill Carr, a former Florida athletic director who was Houston’s AD when the SWC breakup began, once summed this up to me in a way that still sticks.
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Because colonization can precede infection, one patient may count as both a screening case and, later, a clinical case, so the two totals overlap and cannot be summed.
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Those resources include avenues to help seniors maintain regular exercise, ongoing positive social connections, appropriate living situations, transportation and more.
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This look leans more subdued and boho with its all-black layers and accessories, but feel free to experiment with contrasting tones and more color for a bolder result.
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Under his leadership, SMUD expanded workforce training programs, and joined the state’s Energy Imbalance Market, a wholesale energy-trading market that allows SMUD to buy low-cost renewable energy in real time, and sell excess energy to generate additional revenue.
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According to the agency, the Dodd-Frank Act, a 2010 law passed in the wake of the housing crash to tighten financial oversight, expanded its authority by giving it control over swaps, a type of derivative contract.
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“Added.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/added. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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