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accrue

[uh-kroo] / əˈkru /


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According to Wright, the board allowed Adelkoff to accrue eight weeks of vacation a year as CEO, a number that was reduced to four weeks in 2012.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

More value is going to accrue to capital than to workers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

The maximum interest you can accrue on Plan 2 is 6.2%.

From BBC Jun. 18, 2026

Further advances are planned for the 2030s to exploit future upgrades to the LHC and accrue a dataset 15 times larger again.

From Science Daily May 26, 2026

He walked to the top of a rise and crouched and watched the day accrue.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

“History suggests that transformative technologies create enormous value—and much of that value accrues to the companies that build and deploy them, and to the investors who own them,” he wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 23, 2026

But much more than that, it is a story about how one individual, when he accrues enough wealth and influence and connections, can work the entire global system to his benefit for very nefarious purposes.

From Slate Feb. 4, 2026

“Microsoft’s diversity of exposure to the software stack gives the company multiple ways to win depending on where the value accrues from AI adoption,” wrote Borges.

From Barron's Jan. 12, 2026

First, investors should prioritize “picks-and-shovel plays” in AI, as value accrues to bottleneck layers — lithography, memory, advanced logic fabrication and chip design, he says.

From MarketWatch Dec. 9, 2025

The benefit accrues to the whole community, and to each individual therein.

From Woman under socialism by Daniel De Leon

When asked about her pay, Adelkoff said the unusually high compensation was the result of a payout of unused vacation time that had accrued over the 40 years she has worked at the nonprofit.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

Everton then spent £97m before the 2025-26 campaign - a club record net outlay in a summer transfer window - to repeat the same finish having accrued one more point.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

Having invested in hedge funds for over 20 years, the fund has accrued a good sense of the strong managers, the network and the partnerships, said Yeo.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

The ruling also requires payment of unspecified accrued interest.

From Barron's Jul. 8, 2026

The sum of it had almost entirely depleted the modest savings Ekon had accrued from his time at the temple, not that Koffi needed to know that, or anything else about his financial situation.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

“That leaves providers in this space of providing services and accruing and accumulating debt without any idea of when those contracts are going to be executed and when contracts will be paid,” Maceri said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

Most of the wealth accruing to the companies monetizing it has been expropriated by them.

From MarketWatch Jul. 6, 2026

Around 2015, Triple Eight began accruing recognition, and a steady accumulation of awards hasn’t slowed since.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 16, 2026

StepStone has been accruing the liability on its financial statements, and the latest estimate of the cost of buying in the CH fee interest was $2.17 billion.

From Barron's May 20, 2026

The contract provided that all monies accruing to Malcolm X “shall be made payable by the agent to ‘Muhammad’s Mosque No. 2,’ ” but Malcolm X felt this was insufficient.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey




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