accumulation
Example Sentences
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His main concern, he said, is the accumulation of those shocks.
From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026
That “better” isn’t a lightning bolt so much as a slow accumulation — small, incremental shifts that bring something closer, then closer still.
From Salon • Apr. 16, 2026
In the liver, fat accumulation increased, along with the activity of genes linked to fatty acid production and lipid transport.
From Science Daily • Apr. 14, 2026
At the end of the 75-year accumulation period, the trust fund would repay the Treasury the principal and interest on the original borrowed amount.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026
Thanks to all these factors, Eurasia was the continent on which technology started its post-Pleistocene acceleration earliest and resulted in the greatest local accumulation of technologies.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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