account for
Example Sentences
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They now account for 5% of monthly sales for drinkable self-tanner GlowDrop, up from less than 1% six months ago, said Vince van Meer, chief executive of parent company Gen Brands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Mexican cattle imports account for about 5% of the cattle processed in the U.S. and meatpacking executives had said it was the fastest way to potentially lower beef prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
"Expanding the Homo genus to also include species of Australopithecus and Paranthropus will allow us to account for differences without regularly reclassifying particular groups."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
First came the whippet who lives down the hall, galloping outside my apartment and then, as he often does, failing to account for the slickness of the linoleum.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
They didn’t know how to account for his strange doings but, to their credit, they were willing to let bygones be bygones.
From "Bunnicula" by Deborah Howe and James Howe
