accumulate
Example Sentences
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Sphagnum moss can hold 20 times its weight in water and helps create peat bogs, where dead vegetation accumulates rather than decays, capturing carbon in the ground.
From BBC
Lead is the heaviest of the heavy metals and, like mercury and arsenic, it accumulates in living tissue and is harmful even at low concentrations.
From Science Daily
When the company shifts direction, it reassigns engineers rather than laying them off, so they accumulate expertise over decades, across different projects.
Computers do not have the common sense or wisdom that humans accumulate by living life.
From MarketWatch
Researchers in atmospheric science, led by a team at Lancaster University, have calculated for the first time how much of this pollution has accumulated worldwide.
From Science Daily
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
