accounting for
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But that will take time, and the United States remains Canada's largest trading partner by far, accounting for roughly 70 percent of Canadian exports.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
These investigations now affect 60 trading partners accounting for 99.4% of U.S. imports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
LA28 announced Friday it sold more than 6 million tickets during its first two drops, accounting for more than half of the expected Olympic ticket availability.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
After accounting for the unusual evolutionary history of the aculeate Hymenoptera, the researchers found that haplodiploid insects outside that group developed eusociality at rates similar to those seen in diploid insects.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
If it is in the nature of living things to pool resources, to fuse when possible, we would have a new way of accounting for the progressive enrichment and complexity of form in living things.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
