Account for
Account for verb - To give the reason for or cause of.
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Detail and account for are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Detail" instead a verb "Account for".
Detail
Detail verb - To assign to a place or position.
Account for and detail are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Account for" instead a verb "Detail".
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Usually because Piper's plans go into so much detail that they fail to account for things going wrong, new situations arising, or are just so elaborate and complex that they succumb to Occam's Razor.
Source: Western Animation / Storm Hawks -
Although, as Joker mentions to a henchman in your first trip into the sewer, he can't take every detail into account for something as big as an island takeover.
- There'll be a point where it's incredibly obvious who the actual murderer is, but unless the character can account for some detail of how the murder went down, the entire claim is discredited and the murderer goes free.
Source: Off on a Technicality
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