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account

[uh-kount] / əˈkaʊnt /




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Each account has designated beneficiaries, and those beneficiaries are aware that I hold her power of attorney.

From MarketWatch Aug. 19, 2026

Changes in reproductive patterns, diet, and other lifestyle factors may contribute to the trend, but the research team said those factors do not fully account for what they are seeing.

From Science Daily Aug. 19, 2026

The survey by a group calling itself Median Strategies was reported on last week by the California Post and others, and the results were touted by Bass’ account on X.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

One of Istomin’s sorority sisters started a burner account so they could assess pages without giving anything away.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

“Did she take money out of my account? Because if she did...”

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

Banks typically protect up to $250,000 in consumer accounts with insurance from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation — a safety net that most peer-to-peer transaction apps lack.

From MarketWatch Aug. 19, 2026

The DoJ said Mabna had targeted the accounts of 100,000 academics around the world, and successfully compromised 8,000 professor email accounts at 144 US-based universities and another 178 academic institutions internationally.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

So far, August accounts for a fifth of all attacks on shipping in the war, which is now approaching the six-month mark.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

Holding a financial power of attorney gives you authority to access and manage her accounts while she is alive, but it also makes you a fiduciary.

From MarketWatch Aug. 19, 2026

In the study, Ophie once again found the man sitting at the desk, still murmuring about accounts and shipping fees.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

They accounted for 54% of all payments in made in 2025.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

MVP quarterback Kate Meier has accounted for 11 scores in the past three games.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

The detected signal closely matched detailed simulations that accounted for the remaining nuclear fuel inventory and the decay of long-lived fission products.

From Science Daily Aug. 14, 2026

The company’s data centers this spring already accounted for three-quarters of the 2 gigawatts of data center power that was being generated behind-the-meter, or outside of the U.S. electrical grid.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

I trusted my father, but wondered how his explanation accounted for Rambo and Chuck Norris, who came to the trading center that summer and created a lot of controversy.

From "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba

George Newcomb, GE HealthCare’s controller and chief accounting officer, stepped in as interim CFO last week after James Saccaro left to join Zoetis as chief financial and operating officer.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

Anne Stafford, professor of accounting and finance, at the University of Manchester, said the deal struck with Consort "represents a case of too little, too late".

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

After accounting for the unusual evolutionary history of the aculeate Hymenoptera, the researchers found that haplodiploid insects outside that group developed eusociality at rates similar to those seen in diploid insects.

From Science Daily Aug. 15, 2026

“Especially in new developments, you have all these surprises, because everything is brand new,” Miklos Ringbauer, founder of MiklosCPA, a Southern California-based accounting and tax advisory company, told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch Aug. 15, 2026

Arabic numerals made possible the paper-based accounting of double-entry bookkeeping.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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