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accumulate

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


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Keep this money in a high-yield savings account, so that it will accumulate interest.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026

Despite near-term headwinds, the analyst remains upbeat on the company’s outlook, viewing any share-price pullback as an opportunity to accumulate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

“Some of the chemotherapeutic drugs said right on there that … it could accumulate in your body, it could kill you,” she told me.

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026

"Rickshaws, which operate continuously throughout the day, accumulate fuel savings rapidly," said Bidisha Bhattacharya of the Delhi-based Chintan Research Foundation.

From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026

When I’m alone, I let the dishes accumulate in the sink, I allow colored fur to grow in jars of leftovers, I use up all my underpants before washing any of them.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Detritus accumulates like a wake behind a songwriter because songwriters are loath to continue to try to promote a piece of material that has any disappointment attached to it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

As the DNA accumulates, it interacts with an RNA molecule that has been preventing the toxin from being made.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

On Wednesday the Federal Reserve said it was leaving rates unchanged while new information accumulates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Such support might allow neural networks to continue functioning even as Alzheimer's related damage accumulates.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

Rather, it accumulates in the bones and blood–that’s what makes it so dangerous–and neither bone nor blood was tested.

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

Gains accumulated over years are difficult to connect to a particular piece of confidential information.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

Before the June 2025 strikes, it had accumulated an estimated 441kg enriched to 60%, close to weapons grade.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

By examining this genetic material, the international research team assembled what they describe as the most comprehensive picture yet of the biological traces accumulated on the Shroud throughout its history.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026

SpaceX reportedly wound up buying thousands of Cybertrucks when sales disappointed and inventory accumulated, providing some valuable insight into how Musk uses his portfolio of companies to prop each other up.

From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2026

What if the current forms of animals were also the consequence of natural forces that had accumulated over millennia?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

After spending a lifetime working and accumulating wealth, I want to experience some of the rewards while I am healthy enough to enjoy them.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

The plates slowly accumulating a geological record of every meal cooked since check-in.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

Once additional material stopped accumulating on the mountain, powerful winds may have gradually eroded portions of the existing rock, carving out the distinctive yardangs visible today.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

Heavy rain in Scotland may cause some localised flooding with a Met Office yellow warning for 20-40mm of rain forecast with up to 80mm accumulating in a few areas through Friday.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

They kept growing like nothing anyone had seen, doubling their numbers every twenty-four hours, stacking hundreds on top of hundreds, accumulating by the millions.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot


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