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It was a life-changing amount of money for Akil, who could then use his windfall to finance his next search.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

International tax treaties might block or reduce the amount owed to the IRS for income taxes and payroll taxes.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026

If the windows were open, he said, the boat could have suddenly taken on a tremendous amount of water once it started rolling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

It’s a small amount of poop, and it gets onto the food.

From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026

In the limited amount of time that the harsh weather has allowed it to explore the Erebus, Neptune has provided from inside the crushed remains of John Franklin’s cabin.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

Large language models underpin chatbots and other artificial intelligence tools with their ability to crunch huge amounts of digital data.

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

That combination allowed unusually large amounts of carbon to become buried for millions of years.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026

When it is tied to "an unparalleled moral eminence", he wrote, a fast unto death "amounts to blackmail".

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026

The standoff had pushed Verdugo to find a new meeting place and launch what amounts to a rival government.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

“You’re kidding, right? You don’t think the huge amounts of greenhouse gases we’re releasing into the air by burning fossil fuels has anything to do with the fact that the earth keeps getting hotter?”

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

Attorney General Peter Neronha calls it “willful, reckless, or wicked, as amounted to criminality.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 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

Whether the episode amounted to anything beyond hearsay amid the ubiquitous sense of mass confusion and despair remains a question mark.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

There was regular jet service to Petersburg, but the sum of my liquid assets amounted to a 1960 Pontiac Star Chief and two hundred dollars in cash, not even enough for one-way airfare.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

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

Jesus—$18.95 P^us the 3 per cent sales tax which Tubs figured out would make a grand total of $19.52, the sales tax amounting to fifty-seven cents.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier