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amount

[uh-maunt] / əˈmaʊnt /






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This time around, the group sponsored a committee that spent five times that amount in support of Raman, posting content on the website “Burned by Bass.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2026

“A certain amount of growth has to be supported by making your winery’s visitation experience more attractive than others, as well as increasing awareness and interest,” says Miller.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026

Although the amount released by one person may seem small, the combined output of billions of people adds up to an enormous quantity.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026

Does its size reflect the amount of risk you’re willing to take with that stock?

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2026

From the time the Antikythera wreck was first discovered, those who have seen it firsthand have been impressed with the amount of wreckage and how large the ancient sunken vessel seems to have been.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

The question of whether a person amounts to the sum of these reproducible qualities is moving from speculative fiction into ordinary life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

Among U.S. adults who drank higher amounts of caffeinated coffee, researchers recorded 141 dementia cases annually for every 100,000 people.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026

Further declines would have wide-ranging financial and economic consequences amid the massive AI spending, much of it fuelled by companies taking on huge amounts of debt.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

For instance, some areas, like cancer, have an established charitable sector "which is able to attract large amounts of funding", she says.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Karpov signed the contract, but when the promoters showed up in Reykjavik, Bobby wanted to be paid in three installments, one per meeting—in amounts of $20,000, $50,000, and $100,000 respectively—just to discuss it.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

They argued that his remarks, which were also circulated online, amounted to treason.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

The lawsuits alleged that Vintfeld’s employees approached families at shopping malls, complimented parents for their children’s good looks, and enticed them to pay up to $1,500 for marketing services that amounted to just photo shoots.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

The result was hit by charges and associated costs with recent transactions that amounted to 416 million euros for the quarter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Service revenue amounted to $1.31 billion in the third quarter, versus the $1.33 billion that analysts tracked by FactSet were expecting.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

The bond market had created what amounted to a double agent—a character who seemed to represent the interests of investors when he better represented the interests of Wall Street bond trading desks.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Under mom’s current plan, the three of us would split everything equally, amounting to about $468,000 each.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

But now, one of college sports’ most high-profile investments was amounting to nothing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Last week an independent legal panel delivered a long-anticipated verdict, finding the club guilty on 114 counts of systematic financial fraud, amounting to more than a billion dollars in fake revenues and sham commercial sponsorships.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

In early 2023, another Singaporean man had filed two lawsuits – in claims amounting to over S$3m - against a woman who rejected his romantic advances.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

There are stretches amounting to many minutes when all three of our trainers wander off, leaving us to sit there in silence or take the opportunity to squirm.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich


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