racks up

verb

present tense third-person singular of rack up
1
as in scores
to gain (as points or runs in a game) as credit towards one's total number of points having racked up a huge number of points in the short program, the figure skater would have to have a disastrous long program in order to miss out on a medal

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as in wins
to obtain (as a goal) through effort racked up their second consecutive Super Bowl victory

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Recent Examples of racks up And hey, if this movie racks up the views, perhaps the next tale will make it to theaters, with bigger co-stars to boot. — Mark Meszoros, Twin Cities, 29 May 2026 As Pratt’s campaign racks up viral attention and climbs in visibility, some figures in Los Angeles’s entertainment and donor circles appear increasingly comfortable treating his candidacy like a legitimate political and cultural force. — Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 13 May 2026 Leon Thomas racks up nominations across the board. — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025 If an individual racks up too many points in a certain timeframe, their license can be suspended. — William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 26 Sep. 2025 The team that racks up 13 points is declared the champion. — Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for racks up
  1. scores
  2. wins
  3. achieves
  4. attains
  5. gains
  6. makes
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  • Of course, the Dream scores nearly eight more points per game at home and shoots much better from behind the arc.
    — Geoff Clark OutKick, FOXNews.com, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Katseye Scores Its Fifth Streaming Hit This week, Katseye scores its fifth career placement on the Streaming Songs chart.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
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  • Ridesharing and hybrid vehicles Driverless Waymo ridesharing wins approval for drastic expansion in Los Angeles and the Bay Area.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Roger Niello The moderate Sacramento Republican wins a caucus vote to become State Senate minority leader.
    — Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of wins
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  • In testing, the electrolyzer achieves industrially relevant reaction rates.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Unfortunately, the simplicity this achieves within that vendor’s own ecosystem has also produced incompatible cross-vendor comparisons (see the graphic below as an example).
    — Jason Andersen, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of achieves
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  • By the end of the novel, Sun Wukong attains Buddhahood.
    — Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
  • But if a person seeking status is already wealthy or attains corporate sponsorship, for instance, a viable pathway to citizenship opens up, even if only slightly.
    — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2026
Definition of attains
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  • Stripe gains a live and unusually broad view of which models OpenRouter customers choose and how those workloads shift week to week.
    — Janakiram MSV, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Luis takes him under his wing at the New York City hospital to learn life-saving techniques as the teen gains an interest in the medical field.
    — Kirsten Acuna, PEOPLE, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of gains
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  • That makes the world a more dangerous place, where a mistake by just one actor could ignite a regional firestorm, with a US military weakened by Iran unable to ensure American security.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026
  • His last win came against Sodiq Yusuff in October 2023, and this loss makes four in a row.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2026
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