add (up)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for add (up)
Verb
  • Infected birds are being culled nationwide, sometimes numbering in the millions at a single location.
    Veronica Bravo, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2025
  • But with morale on the lot dangerously low, industrywide chatter and numerous reports suggests that De Luca and Abdy’s days running Warner Bros. could be numbered.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Sales in the Rest of the World area totaled 30.4 million euros, up 4.4.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The number of federal workers who filed initial claims under the Unemployment Compensation for Federal Employees program totaled 821 for the week ended March 15, that’s down from 1,066 filings the week before, Thursday’s report showed.
    Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • But their work didn’t rule out the possibility of bizarre algorithms that could somehow use the same piece of memory for storage and calculations simultaneously—the computing equivalent of using a page filled with important notes as scratch paper.
    Ben Brubaker, Wired News, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Put simply, this is a mathematical function that is easy to compute moving forward in time, but extremely difficult to compute in the opposite direction.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The Snakes on a Plane star said that Willis enumerated several examples to help clarify his point.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Musk, who heads Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, orchestrated a mass email to federal employees Saturday asking them to reply with approximately five bullet points enumerating their achievements last week.
    Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Only the top 51 players count against a team’s cap.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2025
  • And while roughly 25 districts were counting on specific relief awards that have been frozen, many more communities also rely on state assistance to fund tutoring and remedial assistance programs — which Connecticut was paying for with ESSER funds.
    Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 1 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Marvel Studios‘ clever live five-hour-plus announcement of the cast of Avengers: Doomsday was their biggest livestream, bigger than any premiere red carpet, pulling in 275M digital views we’re told and 3.1M social mentions.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The federation sources also deny that any manipulation took place — telling The Athletic that the documents published by El Mundo are just some of many different drafts compiled during the process of compiling the World Cup bid book.
    Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Since the commission did not table a motion to rezone the properties, the Fort Worth City Council will vote on the zoning March 25.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Those measures failed on partisan lines, though Republicans have tabled them for later consideration.
    Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 8 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Hot 100 chart, tallying the week from March 17 to 23, here.
    Billboard Japan, Billboard, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Last season, the 2020 third-round pick tallied 46 tackles, two sacks, three tackles for loss and six pressures, according to PFF.
    Mike DeFabo, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
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“Add (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/add%20%28up%29. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.

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