Synonyms for add up
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1. come, add up, amountverb

   develop into

   "This idea will never amount to anything"; "nothing came of his grandiose plans"

   Synonyms:
   fare, derive, tally, summate, issue forth, tot, tot up, amount, sum, total, make out, occur, arrive, number, come up, hail, follow, add together, add, get, descend, come, fall, get along, make sense, tote up, do, come in, sum up

2. total, tot, tot up, sum, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add together, tally, add upverb

   determine the sum of

   "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town"

   Synonyms:
   supply, tot, resume, tote up, bring, impart, hit, rack up, add, match, fit, sum, make sense, summarize, agree, tot up, sum up, chalk up, summarise, bestow, number, score, gibe, append, tally, correspond, come, add together, jibe, contribute, total, summate, lend, amount, check

3. total, number, add up, come, amountverb

   add up in number or quantity

   "The bills amounted to $2,000"; "The bill came to $2,000"

   Synonyms:
   tot, descend, tote up, hail, get, add, get along, fare, numerate, sum, come in, come up, tot up, list, fall, sum up, do, follow, occur, enumerate, count, issue forth, make out, number, amount, tally, derive, make sense, come, add together, total, summate, arrive, keep down

4. make sense, add upverb

   be reasonable or logical or comprehensible

   Synonyms:
   tot up, add, amount, sum up, sum, make sense, tally, total, add together, summate, number, tote up, tot, come

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1. David Wessel:

   He has bizarre economic views. The whole nine-nine-nine thing didn't add up to anything.

2. Jane Houlihan:

   Even in trace amounts, these contaminants can alter the developing brain and erode a child's IQ, the impacts add up with each meal or snack a baby eats — especially when the levels are as high as Healthy Babies Bright Futures' research and the subcommittee's new report show.

3. Dennis McCarthy:

   Our day-to-day existence doesn't even recognize that millisecond, but if these things add up, then it could change the rate at which we insert a leap second.

4. Anthony Harrison:

   The growth in representation of people from more diverse groups, working in many different functions across the company, is a key driver of our ability to succeed, we want to fully support all employees when there are issues reported and when there may be micro-behaviors that add up. We are going to keep doing all we can to be a truly inclusive company.

5. Kellan Baker:

   Health disparities like poverty feed off established social and economic structures that determine the distribution of power and resources. What’s worse, inequality turns diversity into disparity. For someone who belongs to multiple communities that experience health disparities, these disparities do not simply add up: They multiply.