amounts to
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But it also, as Mekies pointed out, amounts to "a demonstration of trust Max has put in the team".
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
On Wall Street, that kind of trade amounts to what some call a “Texas hedge”—a risk-amplifying strategy that is the opposite of a traditional hedge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
They’ve also considered the fact that with residency or citizenship they could retire or Portugal or their son could attend a university in Europe, where tuition amounts to a fraction of U.S. costs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
"Almost the entire bill is heading in the same direction. One way or another it amounts to handing over our property, what belongs to us," he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 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
