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Well, given the amount of Marvel Cinematic Universe hooey thrown into this thing . . . what isn’t the plot?

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026

Second, a substantial amount of the private credit recently acquired by U.S. insurers is connected to their new owners — private equity and other investment firms.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

Private hospitals without trauma centers, such as MLK hospital, are left to vie for a cut of a pool of any “leftover” funds that exceed the amount the county projected raising via the measure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

"Even if the actual amount of intervention is not particularly large, the prolonged sense of vigilance regarding intervention will be effective in deterring speculators."

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

“The monkeys got away with them,” I said as if it were something that didn’t amount to anything.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Much of the opposition focuses on environmental impact and the large amounts of water and power needed by massive facilities that operate AI applications.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026

"In the case of the ghost lineage, modern-day Africans and non-African populations both inherited similar amounts of ghost ancestry. Each individual has about 0.5 to 1% of their genome inherited from this ghost lineage."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026

Further south, though, it looks set to be another generally dry day with variable amounts of cloud and some sunny spells.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

“Batteries now shift huge amounts of solar power from midday into the evening peak, which is what allows this level of solar penetration in the system.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

There were massive amounts of garbage all over the ground.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya

Talks between Havana and Washington appear to have amounted to little.

From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026

Reform UK leader Farage claimed the t-shirt amounted to incitement to murder and his party reported it to the police.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

Last year, sales amounted to 30.66 billion pounds, equivalent to $40.99 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

PayPal disclosed 1% growth in transaction-margin dollars, a measure of payment-activity profitability, though that growth amounted to 3% when excluding interest on customer balances.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

She’d be the princess, and that amounted to sitting in a cage he built out of stone or ice or something, and watching him and Ivan battle with magic.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

But when Kore-eda’s execution isn’t as assured, as is the case with his latest, all that delicacy simply floats off into the ether, rarely amounting to much more than a halfhearted shrug.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

The chair Baroness Heather Hallett criticised the "vast" waste in pandemic procurement, amounting to two-thirds of the £14.9bn total the UK and devolved governments spent on PPE.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

As of July 8, ConserveOhio has collected more than 105,000 signatures, amounting to 25% of the 420,142 required.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026

In 2025, 48 percent of the World Bank Group's financing had "climate co-benefits," amounting to roughly $50.8 billion, according to official data.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

Buffalo, with 185,000 elms, has an excellent record of containing the disease by sanitation, with recent annual losses amounting to only %o of 1 per cent.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson