Antonyms for account forac·count for

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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. Erin Michos:

   We know that cardiac damage is a marker for more mortality, this study clearly showed that even after you account for age and pre-existing cardiovascular disease, there was a still four-fold increased risk of dying. That's really important.

2. 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.

3. Sir Arthur Eddington:

   We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo It is our own.

4. Marco Rubio:

   The purpose of our life is to cooperate with God's plan, to those who much as been given, much is expected. And we will be asked to account for that ... I try to allow that to influence me in everything that I do.

5. Jane Houlihan:

   In setting the action level that is driving the recall, FDA didn't consider harm to infants' developing brains and failed to account for children who eat more than average amounts of rice.

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