racks up

present tense third-person singular of rack up
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as in scores
to gain (as points or runs in a game) as credit towards one's total number of points having racked up a huge number of points in the short program, the figure skater would have to have a disastrous long program in order to miss out on a medal

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Recent Examples of racks up And hey, if this movie racks up the views, perhaps the next tale will make it to theaters, with bigger co-stars to boot. — Mark Meszoros, Twin Cities, 29 May 2026 As Pratt’s campaign racks up viral attention and climbs in visibility, some figures in Los Angeles’s entertainment and donor circles appear increasingly comfortable treating his candidacy like a legitimate political and cultural force. — Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 13 May 2026 Leon Thomas racks up nominations across the board. — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025 If an individual racks up too many points in a certain timeframe, their license can be suspended. — William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 26 Sep. 2025 The team that racks up 13 points is declared the champion. — Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2025
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  • Alex Ovechkin scores four goals to become the first player in 100 years with back-to-back hat tricks to open a season, and the Washington Capitals beat the Montreal Canadiens 6-1.
    — Senior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Andre Luiz scores again, but Sporting falls André Luiz is off to a torrid start with Sporting KC.
    — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 7 Oct. 2026
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  • The work ahead is to continue delivering strong results for our Country and communicating to the American people the major wins that this Administration is making every single day.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026
  • No matter which candidate wins in November, the City Council will have fewer than three Black members for the first time in 63 years.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
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  • The resulting material achieves half the profile of standard ferrite plates while handling high power densities.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The Kyushu team achieves the same effect with a micromirror array, a panel of many tiny mirrors that sends a different image to each eye.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 7 Oct. 2026
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  • At the heart of Fee’s heroic narratives is the idea of a self that attains purity.
    — Garth Greenwell, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2026
  • During its orbit, S301 attains speeds more than 100,000 times faster than a commercial airliner—over eight percent the speed of light.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 19 Aug. 2026
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  • In wave election years, as this year is expected to be, the party that gains seats in Congress often had more competitive primaries, a consequence of the increase in candidates seeking nomination and the enthusiasm of voters.
    — Robert Boatright, The Conversation, 6 Oct. 2026
  • That equipment must also keep pace as the aircraft gains new capabilities.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2026
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  • Partita makes the same category error people like young Livia are prone to.
    — Sam Worley, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026
  • But what makes an attachment relationship different from all others?
    — Pascal Vrticka, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2026

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“Racks up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/racks%20up. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026.

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