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His comments, in his interview with me, followed by no fewer than two attempts to backtrack 24 hours later, amount to perhaps his biggest self inflicted tangle since he arrived in Downing Street in July.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
The best way to illustrate this equilibrium is with annuity payout rates — how much monthly income you could purchase with a given amount of money.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
The amount, in megawatts, of power Amazon has agreed to help add to a nuclear plant in Maryland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
"Plants require a certain amount of accumulated heat, calculated as 'growing degree-days,' to progress through developmental stages including fruiting. Our plant cover has proven to enhance these," Olawuyi said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
Leaving the room also reduces the amount of time that the dentist is exposed to X-rays.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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Scientists continue to trace significant amounts of this once-popular pesticide in present-day dolphins and coastal-feeding condors, and a recent study linked its presence to an aggressive cancer in California sea lions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The indignity and grime of poverty, the constant close proximity, the competitive scramble for decreasing amounts of writing time made them hunker defensively.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Similar to what happens in the human brain, miBrains carrying APOE4 developed higher amounts of abnormal alpha-synuclein.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
Andrew Bailey said the central bank is watching the huge amounts of money being invested in AI "very carefully" and cautioned that "not everybody always wins".
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Over the next five years I mailed small amounts to the charity that supported Farmer’s hospital near Mirebalais.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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The claims amounted to “anonymous conjecture and character assassination,” he added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Damian wasn’t convinced that amounted to an economic injury.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
Investigators gathered video from a matrix of security cameras that surround the busy intersection to support their contention that Rios’ actions amounted to murder with implied malice, according to law enforcement sources.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
It found staff failings at the hospital amounted to a "betrayal of patient trust" and also questioned why oncology pharmacy teams did not challenge patients receiving oral chemotherapy continuously for 10 to 15 years.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Inside the thin platinum-plated “skin” of the globe was a positronic brain, in whose delicately unstable structure were enforced calculated neuronic paths, which imbued each robot with what amounted to a pre-natal education.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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In 2024, the same team used AI to recover 15 complete columns from a scroll owned by the Institut de France, amounting to less than one tenth of the entire document.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
Under the agreement, Petronas’s U.K. subsidiary, Petco Trading, will deliver six LNG cargoes annually, amounting to around 0.6 billion cubic meters a year over five years from 2027.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Jones said it was right that the "burden will fall on the bigger businesses, not just in the hospitality sector" to pay higher rates, amounting to around 1p in every £1.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Two city-owned parcels amounting to almost a half-acre of land were needed to build the museum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
He decided against it, dismissing the words as crazy talk, amounting to nothing more than battle fatigue.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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