accumulated

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This meant vintage Levi’s, worn tees, thrift-store knits, “pieces that feel inherited or accumulated over time.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

Instead of subtracting spending from income, it adds up what households did with their money or how much households accumulated in assets net of new borrowing.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

Lower down the wealth ladder, the top 10% have seen $34.3 trillion in new wealth since 2020—as much as the group accumulated in the nine-and-a-half years prior.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

The Alma Research Center says Israel's military assessment is that Hezbollah has dozens of trained drone operators and that it has accumulated a significant stockpile of the small, cheaply-made drones, which cost around $300-$400 each.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

Three months later they received in a large envelope twenty-nine letters and more than fifty pictures that he had accumulated during the leisure of the high seas.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez