How to Use take account of in a Sentence
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Such headlines, of course, fail to take account of the whole picture.
—Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2021
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That, however, does not take account of the chances of getting caught.
—The Economist, 27 Aug. 2020
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But the guidelines do not take account of whether a soldier is exposed to a single blast or to a thousand.
—Dave Philipps, New York Times, 2 May 2024
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Google has to rework its plans for a new data center in Chile, to take account of climate change.
—David Meyer, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
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In fact the only changes have been minor ones, to take account of the growth of UN membership.
—The Economist, 20 June 2020
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Ducks take account of how many morsels of food each of two people is throwing into a pond before deciding whom to approach.
—Jacob Beck, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2023
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The second would take account of food-processing, but without any precise numbers.
—Richard Wrangham and Rachel Carmody, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2015
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The reality is that leadership teams are failing to take account of the data.
—Marty Davies, Fortune Europe, 18 Sep. 2024
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Republicans themselves have been slow to take account of this reversal.
—Christopher Caldwell, The New Republic, 8 Feb. 2021
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When adjusted to take account of inflation, that’s a fivefold increase.
—Matthew Crenson, Baltimore Sun, 3 Mar. 2024
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Strengthen if necessary on a fairly limited basis to take account of what has happened so far in the current campaign.
—Andy Naylor, The Athletic, 4 Feb. 2025
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Firstly, take account of your major expenses that easily fit within your income.
—David Rae, Forbes, 3 May 2022
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Now the couples must face their do-or-die moment, making vows and taking account of the state of their partnerships and living situations.
—Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2023
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Providers must take account of the principle of ‘privacy by default’, which means that the default settings should be those that provide the most privacy.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Feb. 2012
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But this goal itself may be based on an understanding of the organization that does not take account of its current reality.
—Foreign Affairs, 11 Dec. 2023
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Just to note again that the board’s fiduciary is to the corporation and in doing so must take account of shareholder and stakeholder interests.
—Robert G. Eccles, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
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Schroders has developed new types of life ILS which take account of factors beyond mortality rates.
—Carolyn Cohn, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2021
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Nuclear-plant owners also need to take account of the growing risk that climate change poses to their operations, officials say.
—Matthew Dalton, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2022
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But to take account of the latest science and economics, there is a reasonable argument for quickly adjusting that figure upward.
—Cass R. Sunstein and Bloomberg Opinion (tns), Star Tribune, 27 Jan. 2021
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Moore added that the most important element investors should take account of now is the durability of current demand rather than the strength of the current environment.
—Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 2 Mar. 2026
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The risk of injury took account of the likelihood of deep brain injuries from head rotation as well as more surface level injuries and potential skull fractures from direct impact.
—Tanya Mohn, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
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In January, McMahon proposed a bigger school budget that took account of another big bump in state funding.
—Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
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Developing treatment plans that take account of all these variables to provide personalised medicines could make a dramatic difference to the outcome for each patient.
—David Prosser, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
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The kidney algorithm, by contrast, is one of many clinical decision algorithms that explicitly take account of race.
—Tom Simonite, Wired, 26 Oct. 2020
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Just last week, the court allowed the Navy to take account of sailors' vaccination status in deciding on deployments, narrowing a lower court order.
—Mark Sherman, Chron, 29 Mar. 2022
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The job of journalism is to take account of that complexity, not simplify it out of existence through the adoption of some ideological orthodoxy.
—Arkansas Online, 25 Oct. 2020
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The mantua-maker—or dressmaker, as she was increasingly known—would have kept a pattern of each client on file that could be altered to take account of changes occurring through age, illness, and pregnancy.
—Kathryn Hughes, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2023
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The first humans on Mars would be tasked with taking account of local resources, setting up landing operations, establishing a power source and building homes.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
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Earlier in March, Schmitt led 12 states in a suit that claims the administration lacks the authority to take account of the social costs of climate change.
—Mark Sherman, Star Tribune, 2 Apr. 2021
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In March, the court allowed the Navy to take account of sailors' vaccination status in deciding on deployments, narrowing a lower court order.
—Chron, 29 June 2022
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