Example Sentences

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Just two companies — OpenAI and Anthropic — are accounting for half of the backlog of the hyperscalers, and OpenAI doesn’t have the cash flow to fund its ambitions.

From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026

“We have a narrowing prosperity on both Wall Street and Main Street, and it probably does create a vulnerability. A minority of the participants are accounting for most of the results,” Ablin said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

That means greenhouse gas emissions, over time, will take a larger toll than regulators are accounting for.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2024

"The issues of longer-term growth, term premium, and issuance are accounting for an increasing share of the price action."

From Reuters • Aug. 23, 2023

You are accounting for it as if it existed.

From Father Stafford by Hope, Anthony