account
noun
an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative.
were accounting
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past progressiveof account.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The three young men noticed that mutual funds and other institutional investors were accounting for a larger share of stock market trading.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2024
We had to put a lot of structures in place on the business side to make sure that we were accounting for that.
From The Verge ● May 17, 2022
The majority are run by businesses with fewer than 10 employees; 37 percent of plan holders were doctors or dentists, while 10 percent were accounting, finance or insurance firms and nine percent were legal firms.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2018
The majority are run by businesses with fewer than 10 employees; 37% of plan holders were doctors or dentists, while 10% were accounting, finance or insurance firms and 9% were legal firms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2018
For here, a child scarce seven years old, I saw myself surrounded by grown-up wise people, who were accounting different ways for that, of which I alone knew the real, secret, simple cause.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 09 by Maria Edgeworth
