- present participle of number.
numbering
Example Sentences
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The group, currently numbering 12, envisages growing food to sell, holding workshops and retreats - and even setting up a "granny agency" to look after children.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
Despite numbering only about 2,000 individuals, the Bristol Bay belugas showed high levels of genetic diversity and relatively little evidence of inbreeding.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2026
Cepeda was central to Petro’s signature plan, Total Peace, designed to de-escalate conflict with the country’s hybrid groups that are part insurgencies, part drug gangs, each numbering thousands of fighters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
In March, France's President Emmanuel Macron announced a dramatic shift in nuclear deterrence, notably an increase in the atomic arsenal, currently numbering 290 warheads.
From Barron's ● Apr. 25, 2026
For its first one hundred years, it was thinly populated, rarely numbering more than ten thousand people.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
