• These nine pieces add up to something considerable, and form a vital addition to the corpus.

    NEWYORKER: Laureate of Terror

  • Is there reason to believe they may add up to something this time?

    ECONOMIST: Japan and North Korea

  • And for all those tens-of-millions of others who recognize that small appreciative tokens, gestures of kindness, recycling and energy consciousness add up to something real.

    FORBES: "A Memorial Day for the Environment"

  • Each picture was shifted slightly in a direction opposite to the one in which the researchers thought the fragments would be moving so that if something were there, the light subliminally registered from it in several pictures would fall in the same place and would add up to something visible.

    ECONOMIST: Unbuckling the Kuiper belt

  • Every year, mags and papers trying to prop up sagging sales come up with goofy lists. they create an array of supposedly hard data points that are supposed to add up to something who is the most obese, the prettiest, the place with the best hotels or the stingiest tippers.

    FORBES: Hey Philadelphia: It's Time To Embrace The Most-Toxic Title

  • If people have no original reporting to add, they instead try to come up with something clever or funny to say.

    FORBES: Twitter Is About To Get Bigger

  • The addition of a logarithmic response to an exponential increase in the cause of something can in fact add up to a straight line, which is very obvious in a suite of the temperature projections made by our friends at the U.N.

    FORBES: Global Warming Flatliners

  • The vagaries and inconsistences will make the various allocations add up to 95% or 105% or something like that.

    FORBES: Sprint Uses Partnership Structure to Dodge Louisiana Corporate Tax

  • Much as we all lament the loss of something dear to our hearts, the sums simply couldn't be made to add up either for the BBC or Sky, with whom we bid jointly.

    BBC: Losing the FA contract

  • There is something about the coalition's NHS reforms that does not add up: I am not referring to specific measures or party political differences currently dominating the debate (differences, be it noted, between Conservative and Lib Dems).

    BBC: Health Bill: Where's the strategic argument?

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