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accumulation

[uh-kyoo-myuh-ley-shuhn] / əˌkju mjəˈleɪ ʃən /


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The field is part of the Loran-Manatee offshore gas accumulation and straddles the maritime boundary between Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Investing, by comparison, offers a much better shot at long-term wealth accumulation.

From MarketWatch Aug. 13, 2026

Li, who is in his late 40s, was an early beneficiary of the loophole that allowed the accumulation of overseas wealth.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 9, 2026

The researchers examined a signaling pathway that becomes increasingly active with age and contributes to the accumulation of abnormal proteins.

From Science Daily Aug. 3, 2026

I won’t describe what the accumulation of human and animal skeletons, mixed in with innumerable fish and turtle remains, looked like.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

“No, but I’m very excited because it’s kind of a way for me to perhaps move my accumulations into the world at large,” he said.

From Salon Jul. 29, 2026

As the Eaton and Palisades fires roared across the Altadena area and the coastal Santa Monica Mountains in January 2025, the flames were fueled in part by accumulations of bone-dry chaparral, brush and other vegetation.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2026

In a study published in Nature Communications, the researchers found that tubulin, a protein that serves as the building block of microtubules, may help prevent these toxic accumulations.

From Science Daily Jun. 21, 2026

But people don’t buy annuities and remain reluctant to tap their accumulations.

From MarketWatch Jan. 8, 2026

In 1944, when Planck was eighty-five, an Allied bomb fell on his house and he lost everything–papers, diaries, a lifetime of accumulations.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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