accretion

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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

But for SGH, “we find accretion and leverage outcomes relatively resilient to changes in bid prices owing to solid deal multiple arbitrage,” they say.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

The way this material is gathered, known as accretion, and where it ultimately lands on the white dwarf depend largely on the strength of the white dwarf's magnetic field.

From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2026

Physicists grappled with the mysteries of subatomic behavior into the mid-1920s, hoping that the steady accretion of observed results would lead them to the truth.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik