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accumulate

[uh-kyoo-myuh-leyt] / əˈkju mjəˌleɪt /


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"I feel my skills and my passion are better suited to trying to pass on that knowledge and experience I've been lucky enough to accumulate over the years."

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

"Paper documents accumulate at a staggering scale," says one employee at a Japanese hospital, who asked not to be named.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

Creators can alternatively accumulate 8,000 hours of watch time over a year, up from 4,000 today.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

Domoic acid can accumulate in shellfish and cause nausea, diarrhea and illness in humans when consumed at low levels.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

Partly because it took generations for the small changes to accumulate and transform society and, by then, nobody remembered that they had ever lived differently.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

In a presidency good news comes and goes but bad news accumulates.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

The team now hopes to develop a method that activates the bacterial spores in water, where a significant share of plastic pollution accumulates.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

Namely, how much microplastic is absorbed by the body and how much accumulates over time given that researchers think some level of the plastics exit the body.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

If treated right, peat accumulates "about a millimetre a year," Jones said.

From BBC Jul. 3, 2026

But what about the thousands of everyday memories, the thousands of everyday reminders, that every person accumulates?

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

A community garden has replaced a drug market, a library stands where an unofficial dumping ground once accumulated milk crates, and formerly deserted blocks now have families moving in.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

The researchers were then able to confirm that uranium had indeed accumulated within the bacteria's cell walls.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

Contributing to the high tide are both unusually warm ocean temperatures and accumulated sea level rise, the weather service said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 9, 2026

For years, central bank reserve managers accumulated Treasurys and other dollar-denominated reserves because these instruments were deeply liquid.

From MarketWatch Aug. 6, 2026

There is no effective way for this heat, accumulated over billions of years, to reach the surface and be lost to space, and the radioactivity inside Ganymede and Callisto must therefore melt their icy interiors.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

And after accumulating a record cash holding of $397.4 billion at the end of the first quarter, Abel led a spend of $31.9 billion to bring the pile down to $365.5 billion.

From MarketWatch Aug. 8, 2026

"Not only that, evidence has been accumulating that it also raises the risk of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and mental illness," says Kang Mo-yeol, professor of occupational medicine at the Catholic University of Korea.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

In Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies, tau proteins begin accumulating inside nerve cells.

From Science Daily Jul. 20, 2026

Unified faces a cash shortfall of $231 million by November of 2027, gradually accumulating a $3.585 billion deficit by June 30, 2029.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

A thick layer of snow was accumulating on our blankets.

From "Night" by Elie Wiesel




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