accumulate

Example Sentences

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"The intense heat and radiation split the molecular hydrogen that makes up vast, interstellar gas clouds, quenching its potential to accumulate and turn into new stars."

From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026

The station allows China to accumulate crucial experience in spacewalks, docking, maintenance and effects on the body.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

Even if they accumulate more wealth, which on average they do, according to the study, they experience less financial security.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 24, 2026

“Maintaining constant control becomes harder in wartime, because economic disruption, physical destruction and public anger accumulate simultaneously, and at some point, they might explode.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

It took me another twenty years to accumulate the confidence to deal with what the equivalent experience would have to be for me.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston