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[uh-kaunt] / əˈkaʊnt /




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The researchers also had to account for differences among the telescopes used to collect the observations.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

On Tuesday, 50 Cent posted Roberts’ inmate information to his Instagram account saying that the Florida man “will be out tomorrow.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Twice a year, the components of the S&P 500 are ranked by how much their prices have risen over the previous 12 months, then scored to take volatility into account.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

Ms. Cho’s Ye-ji is sweetly ingratiating, earnest in her desire to capture the lives of working people, yet she has a self-congratulatory air and turns stiff when politely called to account for her own obliviousness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

As he scrambled to find office space, buy furniture, and open a brokerage account, he received a pair of surprising phone calls.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

The charity Guernsey Community Savings will then open and manage the accounts, and work with each young person and their social worker as they approach their 18th birthday.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

It then deleted its social media accounts and website.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026

Kobliner: The Wall Street Journal did a report that two-thirds of the winnings on the prediction market Polymarket go to one-tenth of 1% of accounts.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

Reddit users represent a very different population from clinical trial participants, and their accounts cannot establish whether the drug caused the symptoms they described.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

Now they had firsthand accounts that volcanoes could—and did—erupt with violent lateral blasts as well as vertical blasts.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

The state accounted for most of Trader Joe’s new locations in 2024, when the company opened 34 stores nationwide.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Non-dairy creamer followed at 8.1 grams per day, while sugar accounted for 4.4 grams per day.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

Monday alone accounted for two hours and 22 minutes, with the subject raised in every hour of programming from 5 a.m. until midnight.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

Individual investors and second-home buyers accounted for 1 in 5 home purchases in September — the highest share in a little over a year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

We repeated this process until we were certain that, numerically at least, all the animals with which the doctors were experimenting were accounted for.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

Every year, over 1.5 million trucks traverse Blue Water Bridge, accounting for $42.2 billion in road trade, according to Canadian officials, with volumes expected to be down in the wake of the trade war.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

At Chicago’s Music Box Theater, one of metropolitan America’s premier destinations for arthouse cinema, screenings sold out in a flash, accounting for the second largest share of the restoration’s opening-weekend box office.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

Gu and Baruch Lev, a professor of accounting and finance at New York University, are authors of the recently published book “The M&A Failure Trap.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

But medicine isn’t an accounting exercise with a set revenue requirement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Your boss asks you to figure out for accounting reasons who, among all the physicians covered by the company, is most likely to be sued.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell


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