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[uh-mount] / əˈmaʊnt /






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“If you look at a technology budget in the Fortune 500 or Fortune 1000, there’s a finite amount of dollars,” Friedman told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

Sending those ships on repeat voyages with quick turnaround times maximized the amount of crude they could get out of Hormuz.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

He couldn’t put a number to the amount of people he treated, which included U.S. soldiers, Iraqis, contractors, and journalists.

From Slate Jul. 14, 2026

At the heart of Denning's argument is the idea of tacit knowledge, the vast amount of human understanding that cannot easily be put into words or represented in a form that computers can process.

From Science Daily Jul. 14, 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

The process requires washing large amounts of the potentially tainted food to remove the cyclospora organisms, reducing the runoff, and then testing it to see if the parasite was present.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

Together, these tools automatically filtered vast amounts of data before researchers performed additional analysis.

From Science Daily Jul. 14, 2026

And that is the challenge: Can MLS find the revenue, and is it willing to risk huge amounts of money, to join the ranks of soccer’s top leagues?

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

The rainforest stores vast amounts of carbon and plays a key role in regulating the climate.

From Barron's Jul. 10, 2026

But he just turns and falls into step beside me, and then I can’t buy what I need, because he notices the amounts.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

At that time, this amounted to refocusing its water supply program on serving users in San Bernardino County rather than urban users throughout Southern California.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

As this was "inaccurate for higher earners", that "amounted to mis-selling", the report said.

From BBC Jul. 6, 2026

Her legal team described the businessman as a Russian-born exile and outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, arguing that Pitt’s claims amounted to an inaccurate and xenophobic attempt to discredit him.

From MarketWatch Jul. 6, 2026

That still amounted to 19% of shares outstanding in the firm’s largest private-credit fund, and 38% of its technology-focused fund.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

To be fair, the Americans publicly announced their launch schedules well in advance, so it amounted to the same thing.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

The chair Baroness Heather Hallett criticised the "vast" waste in pandemic procurement, amounting to two-thirds of the £14.9bn total the UK and devolved governments spent on PPE.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

As of July 8, ConserveOhio has collected more than 105,000 signatures, amounting to 25% of the 420,142 required.

From Salon Jul. 9, 2026

There is a name for a capture that proceeds this way, by personnel and procedure, each step defensible on its own, the whole amounting to control.

From Slate Jun. 30, 2026

In 2025, 48 percent of the World Bank Group's financing had "climate co-benefits," amounting to roughly $50.8 billion, according to official data.

From Barron's Jun. 29, 2026

With what he calls “that quick detective intuition amounting almost to inspiration,” he knows that Booth’s escape options are limited.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly




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