accumulate
Example Sentences
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"We collected data successfully; however, we didn't achieve the accumulated mileage that we were targeting."
From Barron's
Researchers searched for tissues containing proteins that could serve as targets and suspected that some of these proteins might accumulate with age.
From Science Daily
Those things include helping many Americans save for retirement, accumulate home equity, and finance purchases; and financing the operations of many businesses with debt and stock sales.
Wealth accumulates with age, so people at retirement tend to have much more than younger generations, a pattern evident in Fed surveys back to 1989.
Even local Sierra ski areas, like Palisades Tahoe, closed on Tuesday because their large staffs of professional ski patrollers could not keep up with the rapidly accumulating snow and keep guests safe from avalanches.
From Los Angeles Times
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