cumulative
Example Sentences
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“I don’t think any individual moment or issue or day for me ever became a tipping point, but I will say cumulative impacts, or effects, is real.”
From Los Angeles Times
But the $10 million wasn’t adjusted annually, and over the next 15 years its value was eroded by a cumulative 49% inflation rate.
From Barron's
An Express Scripts spokeswoman said the company is committed to reducing healthcare waste, “so our refill process also accounts for the cumulative amount of medication that a patient has on hand.”
In other words, there are cumulative, perhaps incalculable psychological effects, of having a 529 account in the first place.
From MarketWatch
Initially, “Father Mother Sister Brother” appears to be similar, but there’s a cumulative power to the movie, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, that reveals a subtle but profound thematic undercurrent.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
