Sample Sentences for
cumulative
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    At my company, sick days are not cumulative. They say, "Thank you," but you lose days you do not use by the end of the year.
    cumulative = increased by a series of additions over time
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    Gradewise things went pretty well and I ended up with a high cumulative average.  (source)
    cumulative = composed of all data from start to end
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    At the beginning of May, Christian and Adam were tasked with supporting an Operational Readiness Exercise (ORE), the "final exam" for a SEAL platoon after its twelve-month workup—intense cumulative training exercises that prepare them for deployment into the real world.  (source)
    cumulative = increase through a series of additions over time
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    In his expert opinion, Seth Hubbard's judgment was so adversely affected by the daily dosages and cumulative effects of the drug that he could not have been thinking clearly in his final days.  (source)
    cumulative = increased by a series of additions
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    I'm not only speaking of the small actions that, cumulatively, over time, or in great numbers, steer the course of events in ways too chaotic or subtle to trace.  (source)
    cumulatively = in a manner that increases by a series of additions over time
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    The scalding sun made it hard to move, but I knew the beautiful, if morbid, truth: heat made death reek, and Grovepoint Acres smelled like nothing except cooked air and car exhaust—our cumulative exhalations held close to the surface by the humidity.  (source)
    cumulative = increased by a series of additions over time
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    Cumulatively, these bites aroused him and enraged him, goaded him.†  (source)
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    If it's finely calculated the cumulative effect is enormous.†  (source)
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    'Cumulatively that's what Hong Kong will be to the People's Republic — that and a hundred thousand times more.†  (source)
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    The lower dial showed a cumulative count, well within the safe range.†  (source)
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    I love these little things, this pointillist approach to verisimilitude, the correction of detail that cumulatively gives such satisfaction.†  (source)
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    The cumulative weight of all these historic firsts suggested that this sleepy city of 150,000 had once been more important in the general scheme of things than it was now.†  (source)
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    Cumulatively, it seemed like a lot of dishonesty, enough so that I found myself wanting to keep my word whenever possible.†  (source)
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