Add and Relate

Add

Add verb - To join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increase.

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Relate and add are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Relate" instead a verb "Add".

Nearby Words: added, adding

Relate verb - To form a close personal relationship.

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Add and relate are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Add" instead a verb "Relate".

detail	add detail	relate detail
point	add point	relate point
time	add time	relate time
story	add story	relate story
Other words: words, weight, years, elements, girls.

Though how you relate a story to someone and mistakenly add a bit in where you died is beyond me.

Source: Plot Armor
Broad Strokes: Not all the little details add up, but most of the series currently running contribute to a shared continuity (the tropes listed here being those which relate to this continuity).

Source: Franchise / Star Trek Novel Verse
The trope is also mentioned by Memory Alpha for Molly O'Brien, who was born in "Disaster" and inexplicably aged at three, maybe four times the usual rate to add some pathos to "Rascals"...according to most of the ways used to relate stardates to our timekeeping, anyway.

Source: Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome

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