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[uh-kount] / əˈkaʊnt /




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Its creator, Dudley artist Dion Kitson, posted a photo on his Instagram account, showing that much of the artwork of Bellingham had been ripped off the wall.

From BBC Sep. 6, 2026

“It runs sort of like a hedge fund would,” Edsman said of his agentic trading portfolio, which is kept in a separate account from his other investments at Robinhood.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

The guidelines recommend using validated risk scoring tools that take kidney function into account.

From Science Daily Sep. 6, 2026

Michael Lomonaco can account for every minute of the morning of Sept. 11, 2001 — including the small decision that saved his life.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2026

Until one drizzly raw afternoon when just enough light came through the window to read by, I came to Paul’s account of his “thorn in the flesh.”

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Banque Misr’s United Arab Emirates branch accessed U.S. correspondent accounts and routed as much as $1.8 billion for companies that were potentially part of Iranian shadow-banking networks, officials said.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

Astronomers are highly confident that it exists and estimate that it accounts for about a quarter of the universe's total energy content, yet scientists still do not know what it is made of.

From Science Daily Sep. 6, 2026

The Treasury said Misr UAE had U.S. dollar accounts with three U.S. banks but didn’t name them.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

"Donations from the names that were mentioned have not occurred, don't exist… in our accounts," he added.

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

The deals, by all accounts, were simply rubber-stamped inside AIG FP, and then again by AIG brass.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

The relationship also remained after the researchers accounted for phenylalanine and other related factors, strengthening the possibility that tyrosine itself may have an independent connection to aging.

From Science Daily Sep. 6, 2026

In total, those accounted for 103,000 of the 162,000 nonfarm payroll jobs supposedly added in August, or nearly two-thirds of the total.

From MarketWatch Sep. 4, 2026

In the nine months ended June 30, hardware sales accounted for about 80% of revenue, and subscriptions made up the remaining 20%.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

After the move, each country accounted for 18.5 percent of the Dutch gold reserve.

From Barron's Sep. 2, 2026

What else accounted for the high divorce rates among Nigerians in America and the low rates among Nigerians in Nigeria?

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

By the end of the summer, the number had become part accounting device, part civic high score.

From Salon Sep. 6, 2026

Santoshi Dotel, 17, was in accounting class when the evacuation order came.

From Barron's Sep. 6, 2026

Thanks to the quirks of the accounting rules, those losses don’t appear on Boeing’s income statement and instead are relegated to footnotes about the acquisition.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

It means that the asset avoids probate — a public accounting of your estate.

From MarketWatch Sep. 3, 2026

She is proud that her money pays Belky’s tuition at a private high school and eventually a college, to study accounting.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario




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