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[uh-kount] / əˈkaʊnt /




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He said Whatnot last year introduced optional account controls to add spending limits and watch-time caps.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

"Companies should be held to account with environmental targets to help achieve a better future without leaving young workers behind," she added.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

Rogan’s Instagram account reveals he’s made several upgrades to the mansion, including adding a cold plunge tub and a sauna.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

Same-store sales, which account for store openings and closings, climbed 3.5%.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

LIKES: Secretly maintains a social media account focused on yetis and the Loch Ness Monster.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

He has been handed a lifetime ban by the Lithuanian Powerlifting Federation, and his social media accounts have since been switched to private.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

Whatnot doesn’t disclose total users but said it added 20 million new accounts in 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

Besides the United States, which accounts for about 40 percent of sales, McDonald's cited Germany, Australia, Britain and Japan as stronger markets.

From Barron's Aug. 4, 2026

In some people, high fructose corn syrup accounts for ~8-20% of daily calorie intake.

From Science Daily Aug. 4, 2026

Today Zeitgeist, as the glue that holds period' styles together and accounts for their inner unity, is rarely invoked.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

Previously, this accounted for how companies created social value through measures such as equality and diversity, net zero and the post-Covid recovery.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

Southeast Asian countries accounted for much of that growth, with the governments of Malaysia and Thailand pushing solar adoption and Cambodia setting an import record in March.

From Barron's Aug. 5, 2026

Fully electric and plug-in hybrid sales accounted for less than 8% of all car sales in June, down from a peak of just over 12% right before the tax break was killed off.

From MarketWatch Aug. 4, 2026

But the EPA’s longstanding techniques already accounted for these uncertainties.

From Slate Aug. 2, 2026

It had probably been designed by a self-taught civil engineer, which may have accounted for the absence of all those expected molecules of water.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith

Tech stocks make up 40% of private credit, with software-as-a-service accounting for 25% of that.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

The debacle was a driving force in the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which tightened regulations over governance, accounting and related-party transactions.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

Wildberries is a highly popular online retail platform in Russia, often dubbed the "Russian Amazon", accounting for up to 10 percent of the country's entire retail turnover, according to Russian media.

From Barron's Aug. 4, 2026

Club costs like player wages, transfer amortisation - spreading a transfer fee across the length of a player's contract for accounting purposes - and agent fees all get taken into account.

From BBC Aug. 1, 2026

By contrast, Lauritsen and his Caltech colleagues soberly devoted two full pages to a meticulous accounting of every step they had taken to validate the French findings on carbon and boron alone.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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