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Orange Is the New Black
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- In short order I had accumulated, via the mail: beautiful postcards from my old coworker Kelly and letters written on my friend Arin's exquisitely decorated writing paper, which were a treasure in the drab ugliness of the facility; seven printout pages of Steven Wright jokes from Bill Graham; a little book about coffee, hand-illustrated by my friend Peter; and a lot of photographs of other people's cats.†
p. 69.4accumulated = collected or gradually increased
- People planned their going-home outfit, which someone from the outside would ship to Receiving and Discharge (R&D) for them; their friends would prepare a special meal; and they would start to give away all their stuff—commissary clothing and "good" uniforms and blankets and other things of value that they had accumulated while doing their time.†
p. 125.1
- Most of the accumulated varnish of the five unhappy years spent on pretrial was gone.†
p. 192.8 *
- This is where it came in handy to be in tight with Pop. The rules of scarcity govern prison life: accumulate when the opportunity presents itself, figure out what to do with your loot later.†
p. 205.1accumulate = collect or gradually increase
- She was supposed to be finished working in the dining hall—weirdly, prisoners do earn and accumulate vacation days in the BOP—but she didn't even make it one day.†
p. 256.9
- I elected to give most of my accumulated treasures away: my hot-pink contraband toenail polish, my-prized white men's pajamas that Pop had given to me, my army-green jacket, and even my precious headset radio.†
p. 257.2accumulated = collected or gradually increased
Definitions:
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(1)
(accumulate) to collect or gradually increase
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)