Example Sentences

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Southwest began considering debit cards two years ago after noticing that debit transactions were accounting for a growing share of flight bookings, said Corbitt Burns, managing director of loyalty at Southwest.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

But before theaters were shut down due to COVID, non-English language films were accounting for only around 1% of domestic box office grosses.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 13, 2022

That heat was so off-the-charts that it led some climate researchers to wonder whether hot extremes were appearing more quickly than their scientific models were accounting for.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2022

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

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 Edgeworth, Maria