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[uh-maunt] / əˈmaʊnt /






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Yields on 30-year Treasurys rose 5 basis points to top 5.710%, while 10-year yields rose by a similar amount to trade around 5.330%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

"It's hard to live with this amount," said a Bowker worker, who explained she had little left after rent, food and utilities.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

"This season should therefore be less about simply identifying who beat consensus by the largest amount," she said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

Less than two weeks ago, Musk said his artificial-intelligence start-up xAI would aim to more than double its amount of Nvidia chips at its Colossus 2 data center by the end of the year.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

It was the month of Kislev, when the nights were long and no amount of Chanukah light could chase them away.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

"They pretended to be big players in the PPE market. They pretended to have PPE for sale and to be able to buy vast amounts of it," Bisgrove added.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

The research shows how major seasonal changes, including melting snow, moving ocean water, and dense winter air, redistribute enormous amounts of mass across Earth's surface.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

Residual dye lingers in tanks and fuel systems, Neuman said, adding that “even trace amounts in clear diesel can bring IRS and state penalties outside the waiver window.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

Clearly the public can consume both slop and quality entertainment in ever vaster amounts while imposing cost pressures on those who make it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Radioactivity from the accident can be found in trace amounts as far away as California and Oregon.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

But in Andriesz's view that amounted to little more than a regulatory "slap on the wrist" and made it harder to make a claim for whistleblower retaliation against BGC at tribunal.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

It fell to USIP’s security chief to extract what in the end amounted to 256 people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Damian wasn’t convinced that amounted to an economic injury.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

Investigators gathered video from a matrix of security cameras that surround the busy intersection to support their contention that Rios’ actions amounted to murder with implied malice, according to law enforcement sources.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Rather than simply producing nice but random tunes with accompaniment, they framed them according to an underlying logic: every piece they composed was constructed with the help of what amounted to musical maps.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

But now, one of college sports’ most high-profile investments was amounting to nothing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Last week an independent legal panel delivered a long-anticipated verdict, finding the club guilty on 114 counts of systematic financial fraud, amounting to more than a billion dollars in fake revenues and sham commercial sponsorships.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

In 2024, the same team used AI to recover 15 complete columns from a scroll owned by the Institut de France, amounting to less than one tenth of the entire document.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

The total 100,000 cuts will be the largest restructuring ever carried out in the global automotive industry, amounting to about 15 percent of the carmaker's staff worldwide.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

On a $2 billion trade—a trade that would, in the end, have transferred a $2 billion loss from Merrill Lynch to Morgan Stanley—the two traders were arguing over interest payments amounting to $800,000 a year.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis




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