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[kaunt] / kaʊnt /








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Sabre’s growth in profitable policy count, with margins within the target range, means the company is in a good place to meet its 2030 strategy targets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Plenty of people in these pages count their chickens before they’ve hatched, so we can forgive Daniel’s children allowing their expectations to get in the way of reality.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

It is not clear which matches or activities the suspension would cover, or whether time already served under a provisional suspension would count towards the 30-day sanction.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

By its count, the event beat 1997 in observations going back to 1949.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

And there’s only one place on The Mountain where you can count on being alone.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Braze operates a customer-engagement platform that counts 2,770 customers, including Dairy Queen, Equinox and Instacart.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

The previous highest seal counts were 518 in 2021, 483 in 2019 and 360 in 2018, showing an upward trend year on year.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

"For the area around Santarém, we've identified about 40 percent more fires than you'll see in active fire counts from FIRMS," said Coffield.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Michael Ray Gonzales, 40, of Pico Rivera was charged with seven counts of felony vandalism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

“Oh. Don’t ye both think that counts for something?”

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness

The key question, on separation, will be counted in its entirety first.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Asian students were frequently part of that original equation on the nonwhite side of the ledger and counted with other students classified as nonwhite, such as Black or Latino students.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

But when that cohort reached age 10 in the 2010 census, only about 14.4 million were counted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

The jail, which opened in 1932 and has counted John Lennon's killer Mark David Chapman, rapper Tupac Shakur, and Sex Pistols musician Sid Vicious among its residents, was due to shutter by 2027.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

In all I counted eleven leaping monkeys; I admired their silhouettes as their limbs stretched against the brilliant blue sky, and then there was no further movement.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

That would undermine the advertising opportunity investors are counting on.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Dr Miskellah, from the Kenyan doctors' union, said he was concerned that governments were counting on the "honesty and full co-operation of the travellers to self-declare, to say the truth" about their health.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Paramount will have a lot of debt and is counting on aggressive cost-cutting to make the deal work.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

Moving it through a pipeline and into a tanker requires treatment that would add $15 a barrel to its cost, he estimates, not counting the specialized equipment needed to refine it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

So on Wednesday I grabbed the stack that Hugo had set down when he started talking to Calista, and I started counting too.

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff


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