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account for
to explain or form a particular percentage of a total
Fossil fuels account for roughly 80 percent of global energy consumption.
From Lesson 10:Academic Collocations & Phrases·TOEFL Academic Vocabulary

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Fossil fuels account for roughly 80 percent of global energy consumption.

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