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That amounts to a difference between “high-schooler level thinking” or “PhD-level” thinking, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

They forecast a small uptick in the operating profit margin, which amounts to an annual per-share earnings growth of 9%.

From Barron's • May 5, 2026

Critics claim that closing the litigation-finance loophole amounts to picking winners and losers.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

The big screens at Tynecastle flashed with images of divine inspiration - well, Rudi Skacel, which amounts to the same thing around here.

From BBC • May 4, 2026

This amounts to roughly 30,000 students per grade per year, more than 700,000 sets of test answers, and nearly 100 million individual answers.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt



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