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adds (up)

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present tense third-person singular of add (up)

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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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The current store network totals 327 locations, with 11 more to open in the third quarter of fiscal 2026.

— Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2026
Despite that shrinking hardware, Fairphone has almost doubled the buds’ battery life, which now totals 40 hours without active noise cancellation, with eight hours on the buds alone, dropping to six with ANC on.

— Dominic Preston, The Verge, 14 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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