accumulation
Example Sentences
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His main concern, he said, is the accumulation of those shocks.
From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026
That “better” isn’t a lightning bolt so much as a slow accumulation — small, incremental shifts that bring something closer, then closer still.
From Salon • Apr. 16, 2026
Scientists have used molecular clock estimates, which track the accumulation of genetic mutations over time, to suggest that sponges first evolved around 700 million years ago.
From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026
“Now that we have an accumulation of positive news for the stock, and now for the market, Intel was like a coiled spring ready to go,” Ken Mahoney, CEO of Mahoney Asset Management, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026
But the real problem wasn’t that—wasn’t an accumulation of small faults.
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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