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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
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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
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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
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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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