account for

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This exemplary service failed to account for her disturbingly poor judgment, risking blackmail and conflict-of-interest allegations, since the Atlanta Police Department appears before her court; nor her lack of candor to the court.

From Slate • Jun. 8, 2026

The country’s two memory makers, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, which account for about half of the index’s total market capitalization, plunged 10% and 7.7%, respectively.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

Latinos account for more than 60% of the shoppers, according to the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026

They also used the shortest path in a non-Riemannian space to account for diminishing returns in color perception, another effect that had not been fully captured by the older approach.

From Science Daily • Jun. 7, 2026

Stephen Byerley placed two fingers to the bridge of his nose, “Then the Machine cannot be tampered with—And how do you account for recent errors, then?”

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov