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count (up to)

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Definition of count (up to)

as in to number

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

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Carmel-by-the-Sea just got numbered street addresses for the first time in its 110-year history.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images The researchers said the Adelie penguins of Cape Adare, on the other side of Antarctica, are now the world's largest penguin colony, numbering more than one million as of 2018.

— CBS News, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026

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