account for
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The seasonal adjustments are supposed to account for this, but the school calendar is not the same every year in every state.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
Chinese consumers appeared to be flying less domestically, as airline ticket prices rise to account for surging fuel costs.
From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026
Together these platforms account for 72% of Iranian crypto inflows.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
The country’s two memory makers, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, which account for about half of the index’s total market capitalization, plunged 10% and 7.7%, respectively.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
Yet geography obviously has some effect on history; the open question concerns how much effect, and whether geography can account for history’s broad pattern.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
