"and counting" meaning in English

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      "examples": [
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          "text": "This online dictionary has 100,000 articles — and counting."
        },
        {
          "text": "Hurry up: the train leaves in three minutes. No, two minutes and counting!"
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        "used to show that the number previously mentioned is continuously changing, i.e. increasing or decreasing"
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          "continuously",
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          "increasing",
          "increasing"
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          "decreasing",
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        "(idiomatic) used to show that the number previously mentioned is continuously changing, i.e. increasing or decreasing"
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        {
          "word": "count down"
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          "word": "count up"
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        },
        {
          "text": "Hurry up: the train leaves in three minutes. No, two minutes and counting!"
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          "continuously",
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