amount to

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But Michael Hewson at iForex says the "numbers defy belief" and amount to a bet on Musk's "ability to deliver" on some very big ambitions.

From BBC • 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

But in the real world, engaged in the daily tedium of commuting, the SS’s straight-line superlatives amount to little.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 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