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adding (up)

verb

present participle of add (up)

as in totaling

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Knight had 10 tackles in Seattle’s preseason loss to Dallas after totaling 57 in a part-time role last season.

— Andrew Destin, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2026
Taiwanese households have a much larger financial cushion than their Korean counterparts, with net financial assets totaling five times GDP, compared to just one times GDP in Korea.

— Mia Osmonbekov, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2026

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While the company's revenue is set to expand, its customer base – which consists largely of the cloud computing giants that run enterprise workloads for businesses – appears to be growing more concentrated.

— Tobias Burns, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026
Pachocki says confidence in alignment and safety has become as limiting to OpenAI’s progress as access to computing power.

— Alex Heath, Time, 26 Aug. 2026

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The number has crept up in recent years, averaging around 1,700 but sometimes topping 2,000, as heat risks grow and counting strategies evolve.

— Alejandra Borunda, NPR, 31 Aug. 2026
This is why counting AI pilots tells us little about whether an organization is becoming more innovative.

— Jeff DeGraff, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2026

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