cumulative
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Asked about the timing Friday, Trump said it was “really just cumulative stories over the past few years.”
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
"It's really just cumulative stories over the last few years," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
People can tally all their debts to see the cumulative monthly amount, as well as the rates and which debts have fixed borrowing costs and which are variable.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
The leveraged fund earned an annualized average of 1.6 percentage points less than the underlying index over the long run—a cumulative gulf of more than 590 percentage points.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The Scientific Revolution was a single transformative process, the cumulative consequence, not of one sort of change repeated many times, but of several distinct types of change overlapping and interlocking with each other.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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