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The phrase "amount to utter" is not correct in English and does not convey a clear meaning.
It seems to be an incomplete expression, and without additional context, it is difficult to determine its intended use.
Example: "His actions amount to utter nonsense."
Alternatives: "equate to complete" or "result in total".
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One insider in the agency worker business, by contrast, tells me they amount to "utter rubbish", and sticks to the same line you hear from all the people involved in his trade: that most British people are simply not interested in the kind of work done by eastern Europeans (this man has 200 people on his books; four are from the UK).
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Look, I understand why influential people are reluctant to admit that policy ideas they thought reflected deep wisdom actually amounted to utter, destructive folly.
That amounts to pure hypocrisy.
So weak in some places that it amounts to an utter disaster.
Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida told CNN it takes her good friend "a tremendous amount of rehearsal and practice" to utter even a few sentences.
What does it amount to?
Does this amount to "redistribution"?
Such remarks amount to rhetoric.
What does that amount to?
Does that amount to sleepwalking?
Does that amount to compromise?
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