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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

This road passes through the central zone of the State, and, with its briearian arms, must cumulate untold wealth and power, only to be emptied into this "lap of empire."

From Minnesota; Its Character and Climate Likewise Sketches of Other Resorts Favorable to Invalids; Together With Copious Notes on Health; Also Hints to Tourists and Emigrants. by Ledyard Bill

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 elector is given as many votes as there are members to be elected, which he may cumulate upon any one or distribute among several candidates.

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

Table 1: individual terms Table 2: cumulated terms. © 28Aug42; AA408620.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1970 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

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

We were now only nineteen miles from Jacksboro, in the valley of the Clinch, but the distance was multiplied by the cumulating difficulties of the way.

From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 by Jacob Dolson Cox