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[uh-maunt] / əˈmaʊnt /






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So, if you can limit the amount of runs the other team is getting, you’re going to do a pretty good job.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Should I give them a fixed amount each year and tell them that’s all they will get?

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

Yields on 30-year Treasurys rose 5 basis points to top 5.710%, while 10-year yields rose by a similar amount to trade around 5.330%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

"This season should therefore be less about simply identifying who beat consensus by the largest amount," she said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

From the time the Antikythera wreck was first discovered, those who have seen it firsthand have been impressed with the amount of wreckage and how large the ancient sunken vessel seems to have been.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

The research shows how major seasonal changes, including melting snow, moving ocean water, and dense winter air, redistribute enormous amounts of mass across Earth's surface.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

Residual dye lingers in tanks and fuel systems, Neuman said, adding that “even trace amounts in clear diesel can bring IRS and state penalties outside the waiver window.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

The Bank of Ghana says the practice is illegal and amounts to misuse and improper handling of the cedi, the national currency.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Those are huge amounts of new power to expect electric operators to provide, and data-center developers to accommodate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Several hours later they returned with the small amounts of food their neighbors could spare.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

But in Andriesz's view that amounted to little more than a regulatory "slap on the wrist" and made it harder to make a claim for whistleblower retaliation against BGC at tribunal.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

That was where businessman Tunnock stepped in with a donation which, he said at the time, amounted to a "lot of caramel wafers".

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

At the end of July, ICE disclosed in its quarterly financial report that its $1.6 billion stake in Polymarket amounted to 22% of shares outstanding of the company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

Damian wasn’t convinced that amounted to an economic injury.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

Mother’s message amounted to an ultimatum: I could see her and my father, or I would never see her again.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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

In 2024, the same team used AI to recover 15 complete columns from a scroll owned by the Institut de France, amounting to less than one tenth of the entire document.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Under the agreement, Petronas’s U.K. subsidiary, Petco Trading, will deliver six LNG cargoes annually, amounting to around 0.6 billion cubic meters a year over five years from 2027.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Jones said it was right that the "burden will fall on the bigger businesses, not just in the hospitality sector" to pay higher rates, amounting to around 1p in every £1.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Buffalo, with 185,000 elms, has an excellent record of containing the disease by sanitation, with recent annual losses amounting to only %o of 1 per cent.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson




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