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accrue
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  • The house accrued to the oldest son.
    accrued = came into possession
  • Wisdom accrued.  (source)
    accrued = grew over time
  • I have a few years of leave accrued.  (source)
    accrued = that has accumulated over time
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  • I was sufficiently committed to going to Yale Law that I was willing to accept the two hundred thousand dollars or so in debt that I knew I'd accrue.†  (source)
    accrue = grow over time
  • She would gather all of the accrued letters to her mother, stuff them into one envelope, and use just a tiny portion of the washing and ironing money to mail it.†  (source)
    accrued = grew over time
  • Besides, Switzerland has never particularly welcomed Iranians, thus accruing the magnetism that comes only with repeated rejection.†  (source)
    accruing = growing over time
  • bathe thee and anoint thy face, then give To thy dear son such counsel as thou wilt Without reserve; but shew not there thy cheeks 210 Sullied with tears, for profit none accrues From grief like thine, that never knows a change.†  (source)
    accrues = grows over time
  • He walked to the top of a rise and crouched and watched the day accrue.†  (source)
    accrue = grow over time
  • In dark London, rubbish accrued, uncollected, and underground stations were sealed.†  (source)
    accrued = grew over time
  • But Yang wasn't a specialist in astrophysics, and Lei had taken the path of becoming a political officer, which prevented him from accruing in-depth technical know-how.†  (source)
    accruing = growing over time
  • The nation is lulled by the temporary prosperity which accrues to it, until it is roused to a sense of its own misery.†  (source)
    accrues = grows over time
  • And if there's no ingress or egress—no valve through which may be vented the various pressures that accrue naturally in a closed temporal system—" She made a little pool!†  (source)
    accrue = grow over time
  • Little by little a force had accrued, as secret and silent as interest in a bank account.†  (source)
    accrued = grew over time
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