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
Your income and assets are taken into account for repayments.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
Studies have previously cast doubt on the validity of global centenarian numbers, suggesting data errors, unreliable public records and missing birth certificates may account for elevated figures.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Authorities have promised a return on investment, citing bank estimates -- and a rough 20-year timeline -- that the project will account for 13 percent of Hong Kong's gross domestic product.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
Indeed, and rather extraordinarily, we would be well into the space age before anyone could plausibly account for where all the Earth’s old rocks went.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
