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accretion

noun as in gradual growth, addition

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Two new studies -- published in National Science Review and Science Bulletin -- now point to micro-quasars powered by black hole accretion as the leading explanation.

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“Reduced home equity accretion, in an environment of flattish home price growth, could over time increase the amount of mortgage risk in the system.”

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The team suggests the answer lies in the temperature of the accretion disk around the central object.

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“It’s a one-way ratchet toward the gradual but continual accretion of power in the executive branch and away from the people’s elected representatives,” Gorsuch said.

“The president’s a one-way ratchet toward the gradual but continual accretion of power in the executive branch and away from the people’s elected representatives,” he said.

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