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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
amount .
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Examples
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Sam stood in the doorway; his expression amounted to one big disapproving frown.
Fat Chance Rhonda Pollero 2009
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Sam stood in the doorway; his expression amounted to one big disapproving frown.
Fat Chance Rhonda Pollero 2009
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Sam stood in the doorway; his expression amounted to one big disapproving frown.
Fat Chance Rhonda Pollero 2009
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Palin's careless use of the term amounted to trivializing the historical tragedy of the
NY Daily News 2011
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He complained after a reporter described him in an article as a "double espresso of a politician," suggesting that the term amounted to an anti-Italian slur.
NYT > Global Home By MICHAEL BARBARO 2010
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-- and that was about all that a title amounted to anyway.
The Prince of Graustark George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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When Michel kept repeating what in French amounted to "banana pants" slip, a masculine noun, means "underwear" I got the clue that he was only pulling the waitress's leg.
French Word-A-Day: 2007
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When Michel kept repeating what in French amounted to "banana pants" slip, a masculine noun, means "underwear" I got the clue that he was only pulling the waitress's leg.
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Philosophical literature in English amounted to a few monographs and a single collection of papers devoted solely, or largely, to questions to do with terrorism.
Terrorism Primoratz, Igor 2007
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Abul Gheit at the time said the call amounted to "unacceptable interference" in Egyptian affairs.
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