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amounted

VERB

equal, add up to

Synonyms

STRONG

aggregate approach approximate become correspond effect extend grow match mean number purport reach rival sum tally total touch

WEAK

be equivalent to be tantamount to check with come to develop into

Antonyms

STRONG

decrease depart fail leave lessen shrink subtract

Example Sentences

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One of the victims, now 16, she said she and her family wanted the sentences to be changed, and the boys sent to jail, saying the sentences amounted to a "slap on the wrist".

From BBC • May 26, 2026

Another liability, a short-term borrowing program called the overnight reverse repo facility that amounted to more than $2 trillion in recent years, already shriveled nearly to zero during a previous balance-sheet drawdown.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

“Across the average quarter since 1990, flows into and out of equities from the bottom 50% of households amounted to 3% of their assets, nearly three times the average for the top 10% of households.”

From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026

At an average price of $99.53 a share, the sale amounted to more than $4 million.

From Barron's • May 7, 2026

My first goal in this chapter, then, is to establish why Newton was hostile to the word ‘hypothesis’ and felt that its use in the context of his own work amounted to an insult.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton