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[uh-kount] / əˈkaʊnt /




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There is no way to totally protect your self-esteem or your bank account, but you can make smarter choices about who you ask out by taking some preliminary steps before a date.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

News of Anderson’s death came via the band’s Instagram account, which said he died Monday in Sydney.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The characterization approaches psychosis, in other words, which doesn’t exactly amount to an illuminating account of the pursuit of power or celebrity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

In the US, more than 95 million people have a Venmo account, external.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

“And a prophecy made before you were born cannot take into account the greatest influence of all.”

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

In its complaint, the state said investigators set up TikTok accounts posing as 13-, 14- and 15-year-olds in Alabama and switched on Restricted Mode.

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

But many consumers’ investment accounts have been lifted by soaring stocks indexes, which have been boosted by strong corporate earnings and AI optimism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

In the case of RXJ0528+2838, however, astronomers cannot identify any known process that fully accounts for what they observed.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026

The earliest scientific accounts of elephants practicing "self-medication" date back to the early third century.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Many of its fifty-two thousand accounts were offshore holdings, secretly deposited—many without names, just numbers—as tax havens for American citizens.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

The Gulf Coast produces far more diesel than it consumes and accounted for roughly 90% of U.S. distillate exports last year, while the East and West coasts rely in part on imports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Another notable outlier in the data was the “other managed assets” category, which accounted for 22.7% of the wealth in young households.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

Thanks to home video and cable TV, the film, not accounted as a success in its time, has become lodged in the childhood memories of several generations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

All on the boat are believed to have been accounted for.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

That’ll be a blow to the black marketeers and others like them, but even more to people in hiding and anyone else with money that can’t be accounted for.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

There are arcane accounting techniques for tracking the ripple effects on land use.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

The nation is also the world's biggest maker of humanoid robots, accounting for more than nine-tenths of global shipments in the first half of the year, according to independent policy institute Chatham House.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Seven years at $7,000 a month is roughly $588,000 before accounting for increases in the cost of care.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

In fully accounting for every part of our relationship with Cosby’s many television personas, we only begin to get a sense of how extensively he hoodwinked millions of people.

From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2018

Dad, Dad, Dad, stop with the accounting talk for a minute.

From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick




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