amount
noun
the sum total of two or more quantities or sums; aggregate.
amounting
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present participleof amount.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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Last week an independent legal panel delivered a long-anticipated verdict, finding the club guilty on 114 counts of systematic financial fraud, amounting to more than a billion dollars in fake revenues and sham commercial sponsorships.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
We suffered hundreds of casualties, including 18 deaths, and losses to buildings and equipment amounting to nearly $4 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
In 2024, the same team used AI to recover 15 complete columns from a scroll owned by the Institut de France, amounting to less than one tenth of the entire document.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
"They'll demand a certain amount of money," he said - usually amounting to a few hundred dollars - to withdraw the claim.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 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
