take account of
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variants
or take into account
: to give attention or consideration to (something)
a plan that failed to take account of possible weather delays = a plan that failed to take possible weather delays into account
She took account of everything he did and said, pondering it, and trying to make out exactly what he meant, to the inflection of a syllable, the slightest movement or gesture.—
William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells… he developed a mathematical model for projecting production of mineral resources, taking account of expected demand and the amount thought to be still in the ground.—Richard A. Kerr
Richard A. KerrAtmospheric general circulation models … simulate atmospheric processes in three dimensions, explicitly taking into account dynamical processes.—Raymond S. Bradley
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Scientists say that worldwide greenhouse gas emissions must go down to zero by 2050 on a net basis — taking account of all the pollution produced and removed from the atmosphere — in order to keep global warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius.
—Hanna Ziady, CNN, 10 Dec. 2024
Government spending on the humanitarian needs of people displaced by global warming has risen 800 percent, and military forces around the world are reorienting their national security strategies to take account of the climate.
—Joseph E. Stiglitz, Foreign Affairs, 25 July 2022
Providers must take account of the principle of ‘privacy by default’, which means that the default settings should be those that provide the most privacy.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Feb. 2012
Our words take account of the enveloping world, the impossibility of isolating the individual.
—Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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Hanna Ziady, CNN, 10 Dec. 2024
Government spending on the humanitarian needs of people displaced by global warming has risen 800 percent, and military forces around the world are reorienting their national security strategies to take account of the climate.
—Joseph E. Stiglitz, Foreign Affairs, 25 July 2022
Providers must take account of the principle of ‘privacy by default’, which means that the default settings should be those that provide the most privacy.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Feb. 2012
Our words take account of the enveloping world, the impossibility of isolating the individual.
—Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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