cumulative
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The PM said he would always defend the right to protest but he was concerned about the "cumulative" effect of repeated marches on the Jewish community.
From BBC • May 2, 2026
Moreover, the cumulative breadth statistics — whether it be issues or volume — did not move to new all-time highs along with SPX over the past week.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026
The cumulative effects are testing the Fed’s confidence that inflation, which is running around 3%, will return all the way to its 2% goal.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
At 76, the leader of the right-wing Likud party is Israel's longest-serving prime minister, with more than 18 cumulative years in office across multiple stints.
From Barron's • Apr. 26, 2026
And then suddenly it was not outrage that I waited for, out of which I had instinctively cried; it was not terror: it was some cumulative over-reach of despair itself.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
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