add up to

Idioms  

1. Amount to, signify, as in The smooth airline connections, luxury hotel, and fine weather added up to the best vacation we'd ever had. [Early 1900s] Also see add up.

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Example Sentences

Like a criminal trial with no eyewitnesses, the prosecution of the “Queens of Combat” question relies on a cistern’s worth of circumstantial evidence, which may or may not add up to a case.

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Over the course of a 60-month auto loan, those seconds would add up to a day-long hissy fit.

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Even if Venezuela returns to having 70 to 80 rigs, as it did when production was much higher, the total revenue opportunity for the four major oil-field-services companies combined would add up to $3 billion to $3.5 billion annually, according to an estimate from equity analyst Scott Gruber at Citi Research.

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Even so, after the final notes sound, it’s hard to escape the feeling that it doesn’t add up to much.

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That would let the borrower pay off the principal much faster and add up to around $700 in savings over a year on interest alone.

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