accumulate
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“To the extent they accumulate rather than recycle supply back into the market, the bitcoin available to meet new demand tightens,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
Phillip Securities Research raises its rating to buy from accumulate and lifts its target price to 7.21 Singapore dollars from S$7.00 after factoring in contributions from Sembcorp’s acquisition of Alinta Energy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
This kind of familiarity is one of the pleasures of becoming a regular somewhere: over time, without really deciding to, two people accumulate small pieces of information about each other.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Warsh said that doing so "would allow more information to accumulate between meetings than under current practice and provide policymakers and the staff more time to consider strategic monetary policy issues," the minutes said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
But man can and does select the variations given to him by Nature, and thus accumulate them in any desired manner.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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In a presidency good news comes and goes but bad news accumulates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The team now hopes to develop a method that activates the bacterial spores in water, where a significant share of plastic pollution accumulates.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
Namely, how much microplastic is absorbed by the body and how much accumulates over time given that researchers think some level of the plastics exit the body.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
If treated right, peat accumulates "about a millimetre a year," Jones said.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
Many of the textbook examples become intelligible when the little words are restored: The horse which was raced past the barn fell; Fat which people eat accumulates.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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Although gap between its accumulated orders and annual target remains high, the related overhang on its share price has mostly been digested, the analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
With the Mexican national team, he has accumulated more than 70 international appearances, 18 goals, and 12 assists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
For years, central bank reserve managers accumulated Treasurys and other dollar-denominated reserves because these instruments were deeply liquid.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
Until now, however, scientists have lacked a reliable way to determine how the remains of extinct megafauna and other animals accumulated, survived, and changed inside these submerged graveyards.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
During the last 13,000 years less cultural change has accumulated in Australia than in any other continent.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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"Not only that, evidence has been accumulating that it also raises the risk of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and mental illness," says Kang Mo-yeol, professor of occupational medicine at the Catholic University of Korea.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
In Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies, tau proteins begin accumulating inside nerve cells.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
Plastics are accumulating in our bodies, but scientists aren’t sure how bad that is for our health.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Unified faces a cash shortfall of $231 million by November of 2027, gradually accumulating a $3.585 billion deficit by June 30, 2029.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
But the winds of April 14 suddenly blew away the slowly accumulating hopes of millions.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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