cumulate
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
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
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
These cumulate rather than change: they become reptiles without ceasing to be fishes, if I may so express it; they develop lungs as they grow up, and yet keep their gills.
From The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals by Jean Macé
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
“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
It is simply the latest price per share multiplied by the total number of outstanding shares, cumulated over all companies listed on the particular exchange.
From The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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
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
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
