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accretion

[uh-kree-shuhn] / əˈkri ʃən /


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Phased capacity addition ensures margin accretion via utilization and higher integration.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

While a partnership with one of the foremost AI developers would be “a vital long-term strategic move against AI search cannibalization,” the price action Thursday overestimates near-term accretion, Reese asserted.

From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026

But the monarchy is about continuity; it is an accretion of what has come before as well as a living thing that responds to the present.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

In intermediate polar systems, gas forms a rotating accretion disk while also being drawn toward the white dwarf's magnetic poles.

From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2026

If his face was a supernova before, it became an accretion disc—one of the brightest objects in the universe—as soon as he tasted his lettuce.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram