amount
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The amount supermarket chain Albertsons wants its top rival Kroger to pay after their grocery megadeal imploded two years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
They also directly measured how quickly cells carried out autophagy, allowing them to determine whether patterns in gene expression accurately reflected the amount of recycling taking place.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
So while history insists it’s wise to greet any success by the U.S. with a generous amount of skepticism, the early returns suggest this cycle could be different.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
As part of that amount, the Red Devils' market pool payment, which is based upon the value of the television rights, was £26.6m.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Also aboard the vessel was an extraordinary amount of gold, silver, emeralds, and other jewels, and more than eleven million coins, all collected in the South American colonies to finance the Spanish king’s war effort.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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It’s better to avoid being forced to sell large amounts of stocks after a major market decline than to try to predict when the market will recover.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
Acne is caused by many factors including genetics, hormones, environment and even diet — such as eating excessive amounts of dairy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Despite both diets being designed for the study, participants absorbed noticeably different amounts of energy.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
“If somebody already has that predisposition, then they may have symptoms with small amounts of lactose.” she says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
In that short window between eleven p.m. and four a.m., instead of getting good rest, I would spend my time drinking copious amounts of water to make sure I didn’t become dehydrated during practice.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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In total, expenses for the apartment amounted to about $7,200 a month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
He posted on X, external thanking Portugal's Minister of Justice, Rita Alarcao Judice and saying the commission's initial decision had clearly violated the law and amounted to a "manifest abuse of power".
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
The plaintiffs received “edible Reese’s Peanut Butter products of the type and quantity advertised,” the judge wrote, finding that their complaint amounted to “subjective disappointment” rather than a concrete financial loss.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
The proposed salary amounted to around $1,800 a month, close to the $2,000 a month that South Korea’s spy agency says North Korean soldiers earn in Russia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
But they amounted to only a tiny fraction of Chicago’s blacks, and their ranks were slow to grow.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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Under mom’s current plan, the three of us would split everything equally, amounting to about $468,000 each.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
Last week an independent legal panel delivered a long-anticipated verdict, finding the club guilty on 114 counts of systematic financial fraud, amounting to more than a billion dollars in fake revenues and sham commercial sponsorships.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
The plaintiffs say they have suffered losses amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars from wildfires, flooding and other weather extremes and are seeking compensation.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
We suffered hundreds of casualties, including 18 deaths, and losses to buildings and equipment amounting to nearly $4 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Ama conceived an admiration amounting almost to worship for the beautiful woman in the cave and her enchanted daughter.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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