Synonyms for account for
ac·count for

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?"

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1. England Governor Mark Carney:

   The G20, whose member states account for around 85 percent of global emissions, has a unique ability to make this possible.

2. Athimalaipet Ramanan:

   This is an observational study of hospitalized children. The limitations include that not all cases may have been captured. This also does not account for the true prevalence of significant COVID-19 infection in children, however, on balance it's an important study as it is likely most children with significant illness would have presented to the hospitals.

3. Neil Saunders:

   While the Gen Z and Millennial cohorts are both lucrative and interesting, there is something of an obsession with them in retail and fashion that is often to the detriment of older generations, the truth is that more mature cohorts account for a lot of retail spending and there is a significant opportunity that is not always properly addressed.

4. Christine Lindquist:

   I definitely think that this study helps contribute to our understanding of the consistency of rape behavior among men from one year to the next, but not necessarily whether a small number of men account for the vast majority of rapes on a given campus.

5. Simon Coveney:

   This is driving a fury across the European Union within the public as to why can’t we stop this, they want people held to account for the decisions taken and the brutality that we have seen.