accrue
Example Sentences
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Smaller but real tailwinds could accrue to insurers with maternal and pediatric products, hospital operators with obstetrics and fertility exposure, preschool and education providers, and travel companies if family-friendly tourism gets sustained policy support.
From Barron's
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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
