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adds (up)

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present tense third-person singular of add (up)

as in numbers

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As much as any small college, Mount Mercy has used athletics to drive enrollment, which numbers 1,450 this fall.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2026
These protests attracted the interest of the Council of Europe, the international organisation set up in 1949 to uphold human rights and the rule of law in Europe which now numbers 46 members, including the United Kingdom.

— Matt Slater, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026

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Amazon, for example continues to expand its same-day grocery service, which now totals 2,300 locations, while Walmart now offers 30 minute delivery in some places.

— Jordan Valinsky, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2026
See the full list of scores for Horror Movie Night, and where the leaderboard stood after combining the Horror Movie and Dedication Night totals below.

— McKinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2026

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The report’s trend chart, which counts only those who expressed an opinion, shows support for continuing the embargo has hovered around 60% since 2020, up from a low of 34% in 2016, near the end of the Obama administration.

— Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2026
The franchise also counts more than 1,000 licensees worldwide.

— Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2026

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The death would be at least the seventh at the Georgia park, including one in 2006 in which a man had a likely heart attack on the Goliath coaster, according to the Doan Law Firm, which tallies amusement park accidents and represents victims.

— Hallie Golden, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
In 2006, when Georgia’s Goliath opened, a man died after likely having a heart attack on the coaster, said Doan Law Firm, which tallies amusement park accidents and represents victims.

— Addy Bink, The Hill, 13 Oct. 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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