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During sleep, brain cells produce bursts of electrical pulses that cumulate into rhythmic waves -- a sign of heightened brain cell function.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 28, 2024

Peters, B. J., Day, J. M. D. & Taylor, L. A. Early mantle heterogeneities in the Réunion hotspot source inferred from highly siderophile elements in cumulate xenoliths.

From Nature ● Feb. 27, 2018

By this system a voter may cast as many votes for each of the candidates as he holds shares of stock, or he may distribute or cumulate his votes on a smaller number.

From Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Albert Sidney Bolles

Why may there not be different points of view for surveying it, within each of which all data harmonize, and which the observer may therefore either choose between, or simply cumulate one upon another?

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

The later Swiss laws allow electors to cumulate three votes, but not more, upon any one candidate, so that the success of popular candidates is assured.

From Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election by John H. Humphreys

“This creates a compounding effect where the final price of a good reflects not just the direct increase in the local energy price but the cumulated effects of price increases across international suppliers.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

"We cannot measure the epidemiological situation only based on cumulated incidence," she said.

From Reuters ● Jul. 9, 2021

Germany, with more than 300,000 cumulated applications, and Sweden, with 100,000, are the E.U.’s top receiving countries.

From Time ● Aug. 23, 2016

With her dusty scrolls, Clio is not just the muse of history, but an emblem of the cumulated wisdom of the ages.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 21, 2010

But meditations aiming at objects of desire may, according to one's liking, be cumulated or not; on account of the absence of the former reason.

From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by George Thibaut

The trust funds were a way of cumulating workers’ aggregate tax payments to ensure an equal sum would be paid out again, in aggregate, at some point.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

The longer the race, the more crucial it is to be conservative with pacing, since fatigue in longer races reflects slowly cumulating processes, such as glycogen depletion and tissue damage.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2015

I under-estimated the effect of the cumulating attacks.

From My Attainment of the Pole by Frederick A. Cook

The steady, cumulating influences of the whole atmosphere of civic life must lead to a slow but persistent change.

From Psychology and Social Sanity by Hugo Münsterberg

This arrangement often led to a cumulating divergence from radial lines in some of the partitions, which irregularity was taken up in one room, as in this instance, in the space near the gate.

From A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Henry Hobart Nichols