accumulate
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If you invested your $2,000-a-month Social Security at 64, you could accumulate a lot in contributions, growing to roughly $80,000 at 7% or $83,000 at 10%, before taxes and fees.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
When these errors are passed on during subsequent cell divisions, they can accumulate over time.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
“Many people have reservations about this scenario. After all, your son-in-law or daughter-in-law could remarry and the assets you worked a lifetime to accumulate could end up benefiting their new spouse.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026
Elara raises its rating on Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles to accumulate from reduce but cuts its target price to 338 rupees from 351 rupees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
At first sight, Pascal’s claim that progress has been continuous seems nonsense: we would accumulate experience from generation to generation only if we had a reliable way of recording and transmitting it.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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NPH is a brain disorder in which excess cerebrospinal fluid accumulates in the brain’s ventricles, according to the Alzheimer’s Assn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
In the former, a claim becomes more credible as evidence accumulates.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026
The condition develops when excessive fat accumulates inside liver cells.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
Typically, having an estate plan becomes more important after someone gets married, has children or accumulates assets around which there could be confusion if something happened to the person.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
Pascal went further than simply insisting on the authority of experience; he argued that our knowledge of nature is capable of endless progress because it is founded in experience, and experience accumulates over time.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Obviously, waiting to collect your Social Security until 67 or later provides no accumulated investment, but your benefit would be higher by about $500 a month for life.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
According to the reporting cited in Talarico’s own account of the episode, 50 accounts pushed the claim within 20 minutes and those posts accumulated 9.3 million views.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026
These rocks form through interactions between the crust and mantle when portions of the accumulated mantle material partially melt.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
Chris Miedl, an airline blogger from Germany, estimates he’s accumulated at least 70 from his travels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
C. P. Ellis: hurting and hurtful, possessed of all the tedious, creaking, accumulated hatreds of the South, and yet guileless and—Riddick believed—essentially honorable.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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Once researchers understood the role of GFAP, their next challenge was finding a way to reduce its production and prevent damaging levels of the protein from accumulating in brain cells.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
That transition can, for some people, be harder than accumulating the money in the first place.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
However, large ether holders, or whales, might be accumulating, he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
"During hibernation, bears do not eat or drink and lose one-third of their body weight. Their winter survival depends on accumulating ample fat reserves before entering the den," organisers wrote.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
He felt the starch stiffening against his sides, felt his sweat accumulating in places he could not reach.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
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