amount to

Example Sentences

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That positivity will still amount to cautious optimism for most of the Tartan Army.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

The 5% redemption in the second quarter will amount to about $2.2 billion based on the fund’s net asset value.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

I asked if she worried that Pratt’s agenda would amount to punishing 70,000 people for the actions of a much smaller number, like the man who had terrorized her.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026

It will amount to a twin offering with $7.5 billion of preferred convertible into Alphabet’s class A voting shares and the other $7.5 billion of preferred exchangeable into the company’s nonvoting class C stock.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

His teachers in Germany had told him that he would never amount to anything, that his questions destroyed classroom discipline, that he would be better off out of school.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan