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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accumulate.

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Examples

  • The non-linearity claim I translate to the claim that the frame dragging term accumulates as one moves from the center of the galaxy to the periphery until it dominates the Newtonian potential.

    How Are We to Make Progress With w? Mark 2005

  • In Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the prion protein accumulates primarily in the cerebral cortex (red dots and area).

    Different prions affect different regions of the brain 1997

  • The money that accumulates is strictly governed by the rules for registered charitable organizations, and is augmented by matching grants from the Canadian International Development Agency.

    The Citizenship of Labour 1990

  • He noticed that the water, though so thick with reeds, was as clear as that in the open Lake; there was no scum such as accumulates in stagnant places.

    After London Or, Wild England Richard Jefferies 1867

  • In terms of the capital, as I said before suspending new sales won't have a material impact on capital its kind of accumulates over time.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2009

  • In terms of the capital, as I said before suspending new sales won't have a material impact on capital its kind of accumulates over time.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2009

  • Wet through and through: with her feet squelching and squashing in her shoes whenever she moved; with a rash of rain upon her classical visage; with a bonnet like an over – ripe fig; with all her clothes spoiled; with damp impressions of every button, string, and hook – and – eye she wore, printed off upon her highly connected back; with a stagnant verdure on her general exterior, such as accumulates on an old park fence in a mouldy lane; Mrs. Sparsit had no resource but to burst into tears of bitterness and say, ‘I have lost her!’

    Hard Times 2002

  • Wet through and through: with her feet squelching and squashing in her shoes whenever she moved; with a rash of rain upon her classical visage; with a bonnet like an over-ripe fig; with all her clothes spoiled; with damp impressions of every button, string, and hook-and-eye she wore, printed off upon her highly connected back; with a stagnant verdure on her general exterior, such as accumulates on an old park fence in a mouldy lane; Mrs. Sparsit had no resource but to burst into tears of bitterness and say, 'I have lost her!'

    Hard Times 1876

  • Wet through and through: with her feet squelching and squashing in her shoes whenever she moved; with a rash of rain upon her classical visage; with a bonnet like an over-ripe fig; with all her clothes spoiled; with damp impressions of every button, string, and hook-and-eye she wore, printed off upon her highly connected back; with a stagnant verdure on her general exterior, such as accumulates on an old park fence in a mouldy lane; Mrs. Sparsit had no resource but to burst into tears of bitterness and say, 'I have lost her!'

    Hard Times 1868

  • Wet through and through: with her feet squelching and squashing in her shoes whenever she moved; with a rash of rain upon her classical visage; with a bonnet like an over-ripe fig; with all her clothes spoiled; with damp impressions of every button, string, and hook-and-eye she wore, printed off upon her highly connected back; with a stagnant verdure on her general exterior, such as accumulates on an old park fence in a mouldy lane; Mrs. Sparsit had no resource but to burst into tears of bitterness and say, 'I have lost her!'

    Hard Times Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1868

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