amounting to

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Linda, aged 70, said she was embarrassed enough about her debts – amounting to hundreds of pounds – to want to remain anonymous.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

The complaint is being filed on behalf of 14 deportees, some of whom are currently held in Equatorial Guinea under conditions "amounting to arbitrary and indefinite detention", according to the lawsuit, seen by AFP.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

Boone also held 10,520 shares in a family trust, which she sold across three separate transactions at prices ranging from $107 to $108, amounting to $1.1 million.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

Revenue rose to $15.92 billion from $14.54 billion a year prior, amounting to what Kavanaugh said was IBM’s highest first-quarter revenue growth in many years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

On a $2 billion trade—a trade that would, in the end, have transferred a $2 billion loss from Merrill Lynch to Morgan Stanley—the two traders were arguing over interest payments amounting to $800,000 a year.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis