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amount

[uh-mount] / əˈmaʊnt /






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“They pop up in different parts of the state, and they can produce a massive amount of rain in a very short period of time.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 31, 2026

The exact amount has yet to be disclosed by the company.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

“This outcome is disappointing given the amount of work that went into this process over the last two years and how close a constructive outcome seemed to be,” the Citi analysts added.

From MarketWatch Aug. 31, 2026

By examining the organization of both biological brains and artificial neural networks, Imam and his colleagues found evidence that evolution may involve allocating a limited amount of brain space among competing wiring strategies.

From Science Daily Aug. 31, 2026

You can take the cost out of the huge amount of money you’ll want to pay me for this next book.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr

Because high-school grades and recommendation letters are so inflated, even admitting students with excellent credentials amounts to taking a chance.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

Instead of simply measuring the total amounts of RNA and protein, as many studies do, Kalsotra's team used deep RNA sequencing and computational analysis to examine how RNA fragments were being spliced.

From Science Daily Aug. 31, 2026

Bulk amounts of mostly meat and seafood had remained in the western freezer, which was unaffected by the blaze.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 2026

The complainants will share the money, with different states getting different amounts - but they will get hundreds of millions of dollars each.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

I got the message and we fed him—small amounts, still almost starvation, but something—and Fred returned to his former cheerful self.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

Current remaining performance obligations, or the value of signed contracts expected to convert into revenue within the next 12 months, amounted to $33.5 billion.

From MarketWatch Aug. 26, 2026

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told Iranian state media over the weekend that the sanctions amounted to a repackaged version of decades-old American pressure tactics that Tehran has already learned to withstand.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

Instead, the defendants and their lawyers questioned whether criticism of a government act amounted to a direct challenge to state power.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

The prosecution's case is that Ajay Pant was the "master of the ship" and had "knowledge of the cargo", which amounted to some 98,000 tonnes of oil.

From Barron's Aug. 21, 2026

Maddie’s egg allocation amounted to one per week.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

So far, officers have conducted around 80 interviews and are planning to question nearly all the school's staff and students -- amounting to almost 450 people, according to police chief Alriksson.

From Barron's Aug. 22, 2026

Thirteen large fires are burning across the northwestern state, according to state data, with the number of acres burned so far this year amounting to the highest since 2021.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

The study found such collisions killed between 15% and 29% of a group each year, and was the main cause of recorded hedgehog deaths, amounting to about two fifths of the total.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

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

What the upstate union rep had told me years earlier about an officer’s career amounting to “a life sentence in eight-hour shifts” seemed to be encapsulated in that big red-bound ledger.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover




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