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adding (up)

verb

present participle of add (up)

as in totaling

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Now there are rails suspended from the ceiling and an honest-to-goodness cash register in the front, with dressing rooms and more standing racks in the back half of the space, totaling 940 square feet.

— Max Berlinger, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2026
But Jovic didn’t play in the second half until late in the fourth quarter of the lopsided defeat after totaling five points and one rebound in 11 first-half-minutes.

— Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2026

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Now, despite the economic benefits — considerable tax revenue, money for schools, numerous construction jobs and a smaller number of permanent jobs — no one seems to want a computing campus in their backyard, especially one shrouded in secrecy.

— Andrea Hsu, NPR, 28 Oct. 2026
Most of this capital is targeted toward generative AI, cloud computing infrastructure and logistics automation.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2026

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Campbell and the Thunderbolts weren’t interested in a repeat performance when counting down the days to the rare back-to-back matchup.

— Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026
Investors are now counting down to Oracle's investor day, where investors will want to see if the company can back its fiscal year 2030 revenue targets and if the margin profile of its cloud deals has changed due to the rising cost of capital.

— Seema Mody, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2026

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