Amount to
Amount to verb - To be the same in meaning or effect.
Usage example: it makes no difference whether you're going to the game or the movies, for it amounts to the same thing—that you can't babysit
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- Later, he's offered exactly that amount to settle a big case, suggesting that the rival law firm had inside information.
Source: Literature / A Civil Action
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