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Princeton's WordNet

1. account forverb

   be the reason or explanation for

   "The recession accounts for the slow retail business"

2. account forverb

   give reasons for

   "Can you account for all these absences?"

How to use account for in a sentence?

1. David Klassen:

   The study importantly illustrates that recipient outcomes are similar to those obtained from donors who die from other causes. It also illustrates how the transplant system has successfully incorporated the use of organs from these donors into clinical practice, resulting in benefits to many patients, underutilization of organs from these donors still occurs and is probably underestimated in this paper by looking at 'discard rates' since this does not account for organs that are never procured despite the possibility of providing benefit to potential recipients.

2. Lisa Nee:

   You can't have a system that is supposed to take care of patients, and have a system that never takes account for its own mistakes.

3. Paul Greene:

   Her urine was consistent with the consumption of pork that was containing high levels of nandrolone. We told this to the lab before her B-sample was tested. Under the rules they were supposed to account for it. When your urinary markers are where they were with Shelby’s – in the very, very low range – it is impossible for the machine that does the testing to distinguish between these two, there’s a way to do that called an atypical finding and that’s what we think should have been done in Shelby’s case and it wasn’t.

4. State John Kerry:

   It is critical to us to know that going forward those activities have been stopped. And that we can account for that in a legitimate way, in order to have an agreement to trigger any kind of material, significant sanctions relief, we would have to have those answers.

5. Kevin Golden:

   This morning, Twitter locked our account for posting the video of real-world, violent threats made against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, this is the problem with the speech police in America today : The Lexington-Herald can attack Mitch with cartoon tombstones of The Lexington-Herald opponents. But we can't mock it.

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