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adds (up)

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present tense third-person singular of add (up)

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The collection already numbers over 3,000 titles, and donations keep arriving.

— Derek James, CBS News, 23 June 2026
For the country’s Jewish population, which numbers just 100, the spate of anti-Israel measures adopted by the former government contributed to a growing sense of isolation in the country.

— Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 8 June 2026

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That order's date, payment method, and warranty status still don't tell the model whether the customer counts as active, whether the refund comes out of net revenue, or which rule lets the agent approve it.

— Michael Leone, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
The allegations were based on an analysis of the bars using bomb calorimetry, which measures calories by burning food and calculating the amount of heat released, a method that counts every potential calorie.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 July 2026

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Nielsen also tallies impressions served up within the comfort of other people’s homes; since the initial rollout six years ago, the company has since expanded its OOH coverage to 100% of its markets in the lower 48 states.

— Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 16 June 2026
The Ball State recruit also tallies 30 kills in two nonconference matches.

— Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2026

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Knowing that a visitor asked three questions about security, spent time on your enterprise plan and then left without booking a demo tells you everything about what to do next.

— Suyash Karn, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
The film, directed by award-winning filmmaker Bao Nguyen, in part tells the story of how CEO Matt Mullenweg founded what became Automattic, a company rooted in the philosophy of open-source software.

— Todd Spangler, Variety, 8 July 2026

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Adler’s version, as elegant and lyrical as Fisher’s, enumerates ways to use every last scrap, bone, and core—and introduced her as a writer who made art out of the marginal.

— Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
Zuckerberg enumerates one of these very specifically, and in my view, this is one of the biggest contributions of this essay.

— John Werner, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025

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