accounted

past tense of account

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of accounted The battery accounted for more than half of the drone’s total weight, forcing the students to account for its mass throughout the flight. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026 Over the past year, accessories accounted for 55 percent of sales and ready-to-wear 45 percent; direct-to-consumer made up 57 percent, wholesale 43 percent. — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026 Eleven of the top 12 contracts by dollar-amount bought were puts; ranked by volume, puts accounted for 8 of the 10 most-popular contracts. — Oliver Renick, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2026 As an example, as KPop Demon Hunters took the world by storm, Funko responded with a product line that accounted for 7% of Funko’s net sales in the first quarter of 2026. — Preston Fore, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2026 In 2025, the organization sold 738,459 drinks, which accounted for $17 million in revenue. — Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 29 Sep. 2026 The Parrot vp also told the Iberseries crowd that in 2025, for the first time, non-SPLATAM markets accounted for the majority of SPLATAM content demand worldwide. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2026 And make no mistake, the cat eye was present and accounted for at the VMAs, but Swift gave it a mod-style update with a few flicks of white liner to accent her eyes even more. — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 27 Sep. 2026 Russia and Ukraine have in recent years accounted for around 30% of the world's wheat exports and 12% of corn exports, most of it shipped through the Black Sea. — Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for accounted
Verb
  • Virginia’s 5th is not normally considered a competitive district.
    — Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 30 Sep. 2026
  • The location is along the Burke-Gilman trail next to Lake Union, and is considered the trail’s access point for runners and bikers.
    — Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Indeed, cooling is regarded as one of the major challengers for operators of orbital data centers, as there is no airflow in space to carry away heat.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 25 Sep. 2026
  • And France, South Korea and Brazil regarded as three of the strongest industry drivers in in the world.
    — Callum McLennan, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • With these openings, Febal Casa now counts 283 monobrand stores, including 200 in Italy and 83 abroad, a sharp increase from November 2024, when the firm counted 217 monobrand stores, of which 36 were abroad.
    — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The French bishops conference counted 21,386 adult and adolescent baptisms at Easter this year.
    — Chris Livesay, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Like a left turn phase could be called if there’s a car there or it could be skipped if there’s no car there.
    — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 26 Sep. 2026
  • His best friend’s wife recently called him asking for a loan.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • On that front, Majeranowski added that textile recycling cannot be viewed as a solution to the fashion industry’s wider environmental impact on its own.
    — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The prosecutor was aware that some people viewed career officials who had remained at the Justice Department as comparable to the bureaucrats who had dutifully followed orders in Nazi Germany.
    — Eyal Press, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

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“Accounted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accounted. Accessed 1 Oct. 2026.

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