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View definitions for amounts to

amounts to

verb as in add up to

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More than a million people displaced in the fighting over the last year share his fate, with the World Bank estimating in November that nearly 100,000 housing units have been partially or completely destroyed, while the total cost of damage amounts to roughly $8.5 billion.

Consuming just 25ml - which amounts to roughly half a shot - can be lethal, but it can take up to 24 hours for victims to start showing signs of illness, via symptoms such as vomiting and abdominal pain.

From BBC

An Irvine man orchestrated what amounts to a car-laundering scheme, buying stolen cars and trucks and reselling them with counterfeit identifiers, police allege.

The Gender Recognition Act of 2004 established the process for obtaining a gender recognition certificate - something it states amounts to a change of sex “for all purposes”.

From BBC

Much of the postmortem analysis of Biden’s economic performance amounts to a kind of wonked-up wishcasting: appeals to pet policies that would not have meaningfully restrained inflation, and which almost certainly would have generated a different set of unpleasant economic consequences.

From Slate

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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