account for
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Stocks now account for more than a 30% share of total U.S. household assets, while real estate is closer to 25%, according to TD Securities.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
Ukraine was the first country to create the Unmanned Systems Forces as a separate branch of armed forces, under his command: now, he said, drones account for 80% of Russia's losses.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Ultra-Orthodox Jews account for more than 14 percent of Israel's population.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
However, the researchers found that weight loss did not fully account for the differences.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
They might even have been friends from school who’d grown up and were now middle-aged, which would account for the fact that they looked familiar but strange.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
