accretion

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In his model, some of the exploded material falls back toward the magnetar and forms a tilted accretion disk.

From Science Daily

“The Complex” works instead by painstaking accretion—or rather, by erosion, recording in granular detail all the lies and violations that eat away at the Chopras’ respectable facade.

From The Wall Street Journal

But the monarchy is about continuity; it is an accretion of what has come before as well as a living thing that responds to the present.

From BBC

Earlier models based on our solar system suggested that planets forming through core accretion would not have enough time to grow so massive before the young star dispersed the surrounding disk of gas.

From Science Daily

In these environments, black holes experienced brief but intense growth spurts through a process known as 'super Eddington accretion'.

From Science Daily