Definition of amount (to)next
1
as in to number
to have a total of the expenses of the trip amounted to nearly double what we'd budgeted for

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as in to come (to)
to be the same in meaning or effect it makes no difference whether you're going to the game or the movies, for it amounts to the same thing—that you can't babysit

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  • Police said groups numbering from several hundred to more than 1,000 people formed unauthorized marches across central Paris on Saturday.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Autograph tickets will be numbered, with fans who purchase earlier receiving priority placement in line, the store said.
    — Raul Trey Lopez, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Oct. 2026
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  • For a trailer covering 100,000 miles annually, that could mean approximately USD 1,854 in yearly fuel savings.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026
  • That means studying GRBs may tell us about how these elements originated.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
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“Amount (to).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amount%20%28to%29. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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