accounting for
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EMarketer forecasts U.S. online grocery sales growth of 12.9% this year, with online sales accounting for 15.5% of overall grocery sales.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
Wind power was the largest generator of electricity in Britain last year, accounting for almost 30% of all power, marginally above gas.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
At Chicago’s Music Box Theater, one of metropolitan America’s premier destinations for arthouse cinema, screenings sold out in a flash, accounting for the second largest share of the restoration’s opening-weekend box office.
From Salon ● 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
“You don’t say! There’s no accounting for taste.”
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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