accrue
Example Sentences
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Bush accrued thousands of pounds of debt across numerous lenders and eventually sought help from the debt advice charity StepChange.
From BBC
Poor air quality also accrues an economic cost of about $800 billion each year.
From Salon
Or, in the case of credit cards, they mesmerize you with the many glamorous perks you can acquire, failing to note the debt you may accrue in the process.
From Salon
Fewer Lyme disease cases were accrued over the study period than anticipated, and the pre-determined statistical criterion wasn’t met in the primary endpoint.
“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 Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
