How to Use take account of in a Sentence

take account of

idiomatic phrase
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  • Such headlines, of course, fail to take account of the whole picture.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2021
  • In fact the only changes have been minor ones, to take account of the growth of UN membership.
    — The Economist, 20 June 2020
  • That, however, does not take account of the chances of getting caught.
    — The Economist, 27 Aug. 2020
  • But the guidelines do not take account of whether a soldier is exposed to a single blast or to a thousand.
    — Dave Philipps, New York Times, 2 May 2024
  • Google has to rework its plans for a new data center in Chile, to take account of climate change.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
  • But in the summer, ours is much more complicated with features that take account of sunshine and shade.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Smart engineers say the Brabus's spring rates have been altered only to take account of the extra mass of its second motor (which adds a claimed 247 pounds).
    — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The pricing tool should also take account of the investment in the community to keep it thriving.
    — Angelia McFarland, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Ducks take account of how many morsels of food each of two people is throwing into a pond before deciding whom to approach.
    — Jacob Beck, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Earlier in March, Schmitt led 12 states in a suit that claims the administration lacks the authority to take account of the social costs of climate change.
    — Mark Sherman, Star Tribune, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The second would take account of food-processing, but without any precise numbers.
    — Richard Wrangham and Rachel Carmody, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2015
  • Chair Jerome Powell and the rest of the Fed are embroiled in a public debate over just how far the central bank should go to take account of climate issues in its policymaking.
    — Christopher Rugaber, ajc, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Now the couples must face their do-or-die moment, making vows and taking account of the state of their partnerships and living situations.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Years from now, with the benefit of hindsight and some emotional distance, many countries may take account of their responses to the pandemic.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Mar. 2021
  • When adjusted to take account of inflation, that’s a fivefold increase.
    — Matthew Crenson, Baltimore Sun, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Schroders has developed new types of life ILS which take account of factors beyond mortality rates.
    — Carolyn Cohn, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2021
  • Republicans themselves have been slow to take account of this reversal.
    — Christopher Caldwell, The New Republic, 8 Feb. 2021
  • In January, McMahon proposed a bigger school budget that took account of another big bump in state funding.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
  • In March, the court allowed the Navy to take account of sailors’ vaccination status in deciding on deployments, narrowing a lower court order.
    — Dallas News, 29 June 2022
  • In March, the court allowed the Navy to take account of sailors' vaccination status in deciding on deployments, narrowing a lower court order.
    — Chron, 29 June 2022
  • Just last week, the court allowed the Navy to take account of sailors' vaccination status in deciding on deployments, narrowing a lower court order.
    — Mark Sherman, Chron, 29 Mar. 2022
  • But this goal itself may be based on an understanding of the organization that does not take account of its current reality.
    — Foreign Affairs, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The mantua-maker—or dressmaker, as she was increasingly known—would have kept a pattern of each client on file that could be altered to take account of changes occurring through age, illness, and pregnancy.
    — Kathryn Hughes, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Officials also began to take account of the damage and casualties left in the wake of the wildfires, which ignited and spread amid an unprecedented heat wave in the South American county.
    — USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Nuclear-plant owners also need to take account of the growing risk that climate change poses to their operations, officials say.
    — Matthew Dalton, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2022
  • But to take account of the latest science and economics, there is a reasonable argument for quickly adjusting that figure upward.
    — Cass R. Sunstein and Bloomberg Opinion (tns), Star Tribune, 27 Jan. 2021
  • In a subsequent news conference, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said the central bank does take account of the impact its policies have on the rest of the world but would continue to lift interest rates to bring inflation under control.
    — Paul Hannon, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Firstly, take account of your major expenses that easily fit within your income.
    — David Rae, Forbes, 3 May 2022
  • The job of journalism is to take account of that complexity, not simplify it out of existence through the adoption of some ideological orthodoxy.
    — Arkansas Online, 25 Oct. 2020
  • In a statement to his cabinet, Mr. Shtayyeh, an academic economist who took office in 2019, said the next administration would need to take account of the current situation in Gaza, which has been laid waste by nearly five months of heavy fighting.
    — Ali Sawafta, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Feb. 2024

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