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add (up)

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as in to number

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By the end of the decade, Keen was regarded as the biggest name in Texas music, and his crowds in the Lone Star State frequently numbered in the tens of thousands.

— Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2026
Vee first garnered recognition as a cast member of Nick Cannon’s Wild ‘n Out and The Women of Wild ‘n Out, beginning to accrue a social following now numbering over 6 million.

— Peter White, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2026

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Governments from largely blue-leaning areas around the country have filed similar lawsuits seeking damages that could total billions of dollars, part of a wave of legal action worldwide seeking to leverage action through the courts.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026
Bock already cut a check and coughed over cash totaling $14,500 in exchange for Jamal negotiating a deal on her behalf with state regulators.

— Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 5 Oct. 2026

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Since rates are computed by dividing the number of cases by the population at risk in a specified time period, then by definition, if the number of cases stays the same but the size of the denominator shrinks, the rates will be higher.

— Nancy Krieger, STAT, 9 Oct. 2026
Omelchenko appreciates the study authors’ ability to translate math to real life but notes that fully evaluating the possibilities of new stitches by using torus diagrams would be impractically expensive to compute.

— Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2026

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In fact, the tricks enumerated in the paper are already getting old, one of the paper’s authors, Tina Yeung, told me.

— Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2026
The statement goes on to enumerate a long list of actions the team has taken in the last year to accommodate the investigation, including Ballmer allegedly footing a $50M legal tab from the investigating firm.

— Tom Tapp, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2026

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The Martha’s Vineyard Hospital has tallied an exponential rise in positive alpha-gal tests — 692 this year through August, compared with 742 last year, and up from only two in 2020.

— Bob Drogin, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026
In 627 plate appearances, Kyle Tucker has hit 17 long balls, tallied 70 RBIs and scored 90 runs.

— Data Skrive, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026

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