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Greenhouse gas continues to accumulate in the atmosphere.accumulate = gradually increase
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DNA damage accumulates with age.accumulates = gradually increases
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Little by little, she accumulated things. (source)accumulated = collected
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The alkaloid is simply going to accumulate in the system.† (source)accumulate = collect or gradually increase
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WHEN I WAS A CHILD, I WAITED FOR MY MIND TO GROW, FOR MY experiences to accumulate and my choices to solidify, taking shape into the likeness of a person.† (source)
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Dad had decided it would be easier, as he put it, to accumulate the capital necessary to finance the Prospector if he hit the casinos for a while.† (source)
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I scramble to my feet and brush myself off, though I haven't accumulated any dirt that I'm aware of.† (source)accumulated = collected or gradually increased
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If Edgar catches this, he'll naturally be less inclined to cough, and the bad stuff will accumulate in his lungs.† (source)accumulate = collect or gradually increase
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I knew that time would now pass for me differently than it would for him—that I, like everyone in that room, would go on accumulating loves and losses while he would not.† (source)accumulating = collecting or gradually increasing
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At first it's exhilarating: the speed; the sharp, clear air; but then the snow accumulates, builds up on the runners, and you slow, you have to push hard to keep going, and — " He shook his head suddenly, and peered at Jonas.† (source)accumulates = collects or gradually increases
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Success is the result of what sociologists like to call "accumulative advantage."† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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Not only are the scars from the arena gone, but those accumulated over years of hunting have vanished without a trace.† (source)accumulated = collected or gradually increased
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Our faculties wax and wane, our experiences accumulate, and our opinions evolve—if not glacially, then at least gradually.† (source)accumulate = collect or gradually increase
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This kind of sunshine and ocean, with the accumulating roar of the surf and the salty, adventurous, flirting wind from the sea, always intoxicated Phineas.† (source)accumulating = collecting or gradually increasing
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The coffee table has a couple of drawers underneath it filled with the kind of domestic junk that accumulates over time: rolls of Sellotape, plug adaptors for foreign travel, tape measures, sewing kits, old mobile-phone chargers.† (source)accumulates = collects or gradually increases
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[Note: Example: "Comfort's catholicity of perception and image, strangely Whitmanesque in range, almost the exact opposite in aesthetic compulsion, continues to evoke that trembling atmospheric accumulative hinting at a cruel, an inexorably serene timelessness...Wrey Gardiner scores by aiming at simple bulls-eyes with precision† (source)
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