accumulate
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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
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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
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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
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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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