account for
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The cuts account for about 30% of the company’s workers unionized with The NewsGuild-CWA, a North American labor union of journalists and communications workers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
About 4% of its shoppers account for almost half its sales.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The city will aim to make research and development account for three percent of gross domestic product after 2030, up from 1.63 percent in 2024, according to an official document.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
On average, housing and transportation alone account for about half of household spending.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
And finally, and perhaps more obviously, he attacked Pythagoras’s scheme with the most self-evident of arguments: it could not possibly account for female anatomy.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
