amounted
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Those are a few of the factors that make SpaceX unique—if being the first company to turn what amounted to science fiction into a trillion-dollar valuation wasn’t enough.
From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026
In 2009, after she learned that Nikolic was moving to a role at Gates’s private office, she took him to lunch and delivered what amounted to a pitch for Epstein, according to Nikolic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
In March, the company said it expected revenue of $11.35 billion to $11.5 billion, which would have amounted to modest sales growth.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026
The reassignment had never amounted to more than 100 agents at a given time, Cekada said.
From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026
For the ten months he had tended cattle, it amounted to less than twenty-five cents a day.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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