count
verb (used with object)
to check over (the separate units or groups of a collection) one by one to determine the total number; add up; enumerate.
have counted
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present perfectof count.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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“I have counted in my office, I have 1,823.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
Rangers folk have counted the managers in and they've counted them out again and their patience has gone.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2025
It may have counted to both their records but it was just a glorious payday for Tyson, who didn't really let his hands go and nor did Paul either.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2025
As the wildfires devastated parts of the San Gabriel Valley, Santa Anita Park did what locals always have counted on the 80-year-old track to do.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2025
They might or might not have counted themselves happy, though; happiness as they conceived it then was a thing attained, a grand state, involving a fiefdom to survey from the plump comfort of their dotage.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
