rack up
Britishverb
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to accumulate (points)
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Also: rack down. to adjust the vertical alignment of (the picture from a film projector or telecine machine) so that the upper or lower edges of the frame do not show
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The previous edition, GTA V, is still the second-biggest selling game ever -- it took just three days to rack up $1 billion in sales, two days less than the movie "Avengers: Endgame".
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026
And though the Dodgers didn’t score again against him, they continued to rack up his pitch count.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
Here’s the catch: You have to rack up a certain number of loyalty points by the deadline to keep the status.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
And now that the stock has picked up some momentum, a Stifel analyst thinks it can rack up further gains thanks to its cloud business.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
“Katherine told me I was being mean, trying to rack up all those minutes on my cell.”
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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