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[uh-maunt] / əˈmaʊnt /






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The amount that Apple paid the U.S. government in corporate taxes during its latest fiscal year, accounting for nearly 5% of corporate tax collections.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

McVay said Garrett would take half the amount of full reps on Wednesday and would be evaluated each day before determining when he would be activated to the roster for a game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

And yet, we hear so much anxiety, frustration and complaining from those who have managed to save that amount of money.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

A similarly eye-watering amount was not enough to do the same for Paxton this time around.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

I just stand there, shivering with the amount of effort it’s taking for me to not scream or cry or both.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

He said residents were also worried about flooding as the fields currently absorbed "vast amounts of rainwater".

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

AI data centres require large amounts of electricity -- placing increased pressure on grids often still reliant on fossil fuels -- and, in many cases, water to cool down hot computing equipment.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

Such improvements would be especially valuable in computer memory, large data centers, and other technologies that require enormous amounts of information processing.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

“They instead receive lesser amounts dictated by the remaining Executor, who uses this power to deter them from checking his abuses,” Paris’ petition alleges.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

Like a pressure cooker, it is designed to hold together even as extreme amounts of steam build up inside it.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

That revenue figure for the third quarter amounted to 35% growth from a year before, “well above” the high end of the company’s forecast, according to Sherman.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 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

Operating earnings, an adjusted figure which excludes one-off costs and exceptional items, amounted to 71 cents a share, surpassing the 64 cents a share that analysts were expecting, according to a FactSet poll.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

But by June 2025, the Wall Street Journal reported the pair had “torched” their relationship, which amounted to a lot of social media slapfights and accusations about who was in the Epstein files.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

“You got my word,” I say, which, considering all the lying I’d been doing lately, didn’t seem like it amounted to much.

From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

However, because it was made after two years it was taxed at 45%, amounting to thousands of pounds.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 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

We suffered hundreds of casualties, including 18 deaths, and losses to buildings and equipment amounting to nearly $4 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Jesus—$18.95 P^us the 3 per cent sales tax which Tubs figured out would make a grand total of $19.52, the sales tax amounting to fifty-seven cents.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier


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