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[uh-kaunt] / əˈkaʊnt /




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Only 5% of low- and moderate-income families have opened an account for their children, a recent survey found.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

At 18 years old, they will have the choice of opening an account with Guernsey Community Savings or transferring their savings to an account of their choice.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Mignon began writing an account of life in Nazi-run Vienna on July 18, 1939.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

The commission, which based its findings on the autopsy and other things, said Maradona had a history of heart problems that should have been taken into account, a conclusion the prosecution emphasized.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Alfred would talk for hours, as one account put it, and then expect to be paid a few coins.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

“I think it’s safe to assume more families will activate their accounts because of SSA’s outreach,” one expert says.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

Some employers are reacting by dropping coverage for popular GLP-1 weight loss drugs, though some are now helping to fund pretax accounts that workers can use to buy them on their own.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Associate director of children services Lucy Cook said the savings accounts would support young people by "helping them to access opportunities that might otherwise be out of reach."

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

"Monitoring reports show thousands of accounts and posts have faced suspensions, reduced visibility and sharing limits, including journalists, human rights defenders, civil society actors and content creators," they said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Uncle hated to be disturbed when he was doing accounts.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord

And the UK increasingly relies on shipments of LNG from the US, which accounted for a quarter of all natural gas imports in 2025, external.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

In July, YouTube accounted for 14.2% of all time Americans spent watching TV, compared with Netflix’s 7.8%, according to Nielsen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

The Loughton deal accounted for only a small portion of Microsoft's agreements with Nscale, according to a person familiar with the matter.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

Florida accounted for 19 of those 47 executions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Despite all that irritating dog’s doomsaying about the state of London, I was certain we’d find at least one unraided loop here, its ymbryne still present and accounted for.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

Some implicated concessions have ties well behind Indonesia's borders, said Holly Yang, an accounting professor at Singapore Management University who teaches sustainability reporting.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

It is also well out in front when it comes to transforming raw tungsten into the industrial metal, accounting for some 86 percent, according to Ofremi, the French observatory of mineral resources for industrial sectors.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Gu and Baruch Lev, a professor of accounting and finance at New York University, are authors of the recently published book “The M&A Failure Trap.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

After accounting for the hospital component of insurance spending, the premium estimates align with the magnitude anticipated by the earlier analysis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Hoover also told Stone that per his wishes he had raised the employment qualifications for new agents, requiring them to have some legal training or knowledge of accounting.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann


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