Thesaurus results for COUNTS (UP TO)

counts (up to)

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present tense third-person singular of count (up to)

as in numbers

to have a total of that counts up to a pretty sum over the course of several years

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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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There’s also a Creators hub, which aggregates content from top digital creators.

— Todd Spangler, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026
According to Metacritic, a website that aggregates reviews of movies and TV shows, 94 percent of the reviews of Severance were positive and none was negative.

— Jordana Rosenfeld, Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 Sep. 2026

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