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I contributed a small amount to the down payment, which I considered a gift.

From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026

They amount to between 20,000 and 30,000 barrels of oil a day—a drop compared with the 13 million barrels a day that the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has removed from the global economy.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

When director Don Hardy asked to start filming Perry, she assumed it would amount to social media content.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

In December, the Fed began buying $40 billion a month of Treasury bills, or T-bills, but recently lowered that amount to about $25 billion.

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

Galen’s extraordinary logorrhoea—his surviving works amount to 3 million words, and represent perhaps a third of what he wrote—is the consequence of his obsessive and futile effort to overcome this insuperable obstacle.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton