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accounting

[uh-koun-ting] / əˈkaʊn tɪŋ /
NOUN
keeping financial accounts
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SpaceX dominates the launch business, accounting for more that half of all orbital launches worldwide.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

Just two companies — OpenAI and Anthropic — are accounting for half of the backlog of the hyperscalers, and OpenAI doesn’t have the cash flow to fund its ambitions.

From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026

China exported 769,000 automobiles in April, with new-energy vehicles, a term that includes EVs and plug-in hybrids, accounting for 52.7% of total exports, the China Passenger Car Association said Monday.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

In the published study, stimulation-seeking and impulsivity partly explained the relationship between striatal volume and psychopathy, accounting for 49.4 percent of the association.

From Science Daily • May 10, 2026

Black women replaced them, accounting for 60 percent of all domestics in the 1940s, and dominated the field until other occupations began to open up to them.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich




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