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accounts

noun as in debit

noun as in finance

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No wonder there is so little empathy for Brian Thompson, who was by many accounts a lovely human being.

"However, our analysis of the datasets shows that the decline in surface albedo in the polar regions only accounts for roughly 15 percent of the most recent decline in planetary albedo," Helge Goessling explains.

But there were also enough accounts of unsettling deaths, by suicide or “accident,” to make you wonder about the unreported ones, and the iceberg depths of damage beyond Minié balls and bayonets.

You can’t get colossal returns like these without taking on outsize risks — exposing investors to hazards that they may never have dreamed of taking in their retirement accounts.

The Home Office's annual accounts, published last September, promised to "take action to address the unacceptable costs of housing migrants in hotels" and revealed the cost had risen to £8m a day.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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