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amounts to

VERB

add up to

Synonyms

STRONGEST

come to consist of equal total

WEAK

be equal to check with develop into measure up total up to

Antonyms

WEAK

differ disproportion imbalance

Example Sentences

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Chinese firms take 60 percent by value of the national output, which amounts to 30-40 percent of volume, the tobacco board's chief executive Emmanuel Matsvaire told AFP.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

The refund amounts to roughly $42,000, including interest, of the more than $500,000 it had claimed, and was dated May 6.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

The note amounts to only seven lines of text, leaving uncertainty over its purported meaning.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

It amounts to less than 9% of the federal deficit, which was nearly $1.8 trillion, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 29, 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