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If pop has begun embracing a “genreless” approach to music, it seems like that unconventionality is opening doors for country as well — and it is accounting for the music’s popularity.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2024

That includes an ongoing audit of how the agency is accounting for telework and remote positions as it manages its vast real estate empire.

From Washington Times • Oct. 18, 2023

In real terms, however — that is, accounting for inflation — they fell by 2.8% in that period.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2022

Whether biography is accounting for a bigger bite than usual of the festival’s 300 or so films is difficult to tell.

From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2012

The gentleman is accounting for something he has just said.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend