accumulative
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On top of its potential communicative importance and intrinsic value as a cultural behavior, accumulative stone throwing involves durable primate material culture, the loss of which would constitute the erasure of primate heritage.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
As for questions about her age, she said, "I have accumulative youth."
From Barron's ● Apr. 21, 2026
The debut film as writer-director from acclaimed playwright Annie Baker, “Janet Planet” sneaks up on you with a quiet, accumulative emotional power.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2024
She said it was an 11.5% increase in April, and an "accumulative increase" of more than 30% since 2018.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2023
Quite apart from any question as to the hereditary transmission of acquired characters, we have in this intellectual transmission of acquired experience a means of accumulative cultivation quite beyond our powers to estimate.
From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by George John Romanes
