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[uh-kount] / əˈkaʊnt /




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I’m going to assume, based on what is left in the account, that the owner had already begun taking required minimum distributions.

From MarketWatch Sep. 7, 2026

Fielder had read John Carreyrou’s “Bad Blood,” the bestselling 2018 account of Theranos’ rise and collapse and initially saw little reason to make another documentary about Holmes.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 7, 2026

A World Rugby spokesperson said everyone involved in the WXV Global Series, including players, coaches and match officials, would have their views taken into account "with equal value" through surveys.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

Its creator, Dudley artist Dion Kitson, posted a photo on his Instagram account, showing that much of the artwork of Bellingham had been ripped off the wall.

From BBC Sep. 6, 2026

Imagine if she had appeared at the Grand Hotel in her plain brown governess’s dress and demanded a royal suite charged to Queen Victoria’s account!

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Misr on its website lists JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup as institutions where it has correspondent accounts.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

Astronomers are highly confident that it exists and estimate that it accounts for about a quarter of the universe's total energy content, yet scientists still do not know what it is made of.

From Science Daily Sep. 6, 2026

The Treasury said Misr UAE had U.S. dollar accounts with three U.S. banks but didn’t name them.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

"Donations from the names that were mentioned have not occurred, don't exist… in our accounts," he added.

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

According to the accounts of White and other agents, he looked at the agents warily, insisting he didn’t know a thing.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

The relationship also remained after the researchers accounted for phenylalanine and other related factors, strengthening the possibility that tyrosine itself may have an independent connection to aging.

From Science Daily Sep. 6, 2026

In total, those accounted for 103,000 of the 162,000 nonfarm payroll jobs supposedly added in August, or nearly two-thirds of the total.

From MarketWatch Sep. 4, 2026

They said while their pay met the requirements for their contracted hours, meetings, handovers and time spent changing into uniform hadn't been accounted for, adding the trust has since changed policies and practices.

From BBC Sep. 2, 2026

After the move, each country accounted for 18.5 percent of the Dutch gold reserve.

From Barron's Sep. 2, 2026

Essentially the same processes accounted for the replacement of Aboriginal Australian languages by English, and of subequatorial Africa’s original Pygmy and Khoisan languages by Bantu languages.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

By the end of the summer, the number had become part accounting device, part civic high score.

From Salon Sep. 6, 2026

Plug-in hybrids have had a lackluster reception in the U.S. so far, never accounting for more than a percent or two of the new-car market.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

Santoshi Dotel, 17, was in accounting class when the evacuation order came.

From Barron's Sep. 6, 2026

Walter went to Creighton University , where he studied accounting and business while playing intramural sports and participating in the philosophy society.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2026

“That’s okay. I lose myself. It’s just my oddball way of accounting for someone I don’t really understand any more than you do.”

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli




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