account for

Example Sentences

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At Stanford, for example, King said her undergraduate students are often required to create Facebook accounts for student groups.

From Los Angeles Times

Individual investors are still all in on the biggest tech names: large-cap shares including Microsoft, Palantir and Amazon account for most of their purchases year to date, according to analysts at JPMorgan.

From The Wall Street Journal

"Lucy was first on the scene and worked relentlessly to treat casualties and ensure every Guardsman was accounted for and safe," the regiment said.

From BBC

"Red blood cells are usually thought of as passive oxygen carriers. Yet, we found that they can account for a substantial fraction of whole-body glucose consumption, especially under hypoxia."

From Science Daily

Nobody wants to think about such eventualities, but it’s best to account for all possible scenarios in legal documents.

From MarketWatch