cumulative
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The cumulative size of the oil market’s deficit has ballooned.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
“When many conservative assumptions are stacked on top of each other, the cumulative effect can produce an estimated ‘safe’ exposure level that is orders of magnitude below naturally occurring levels in the environment,” he wrote.
From Salon • May 5, 2026
“We’re looking at 800 million to a billion barrels cumulative loss of production,” said Cummings.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2026
Over the 20 years through mid-2025, the underlying index for the Calamos Autocallable Income ETF would have delivered a cumulative return almost identical to that of the S&P 500 before expenses.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
The Scientific Revolution was a single transformative process, the cumulative consequence, not of one sort of change repeated many times, but of several distinct types of change overlapping and interlocking with each other.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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