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as in collection
a mass or quantity that has piled up or that has been gathered over a period of time
a vast accumulation of evidence about the dangers of smoking
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as in accumulating
the act or process of becoming greater in number
the accumulation of leaves on the ground is proceeding at a much faster rate than my raking
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Recent Examples of accumulation
Obesity occurs when a person has excessive fat accumulation that presents a health risk, according to the World Health Organization.
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Amy Woodyatt, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
Momentum is oversold, but there are no signs of accumulation.
—Bill Sarubbi, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
That’s wisdom, not the accumulation of facts.
—Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
Keep Cholesterol in Check High cholesterol can lead to plaque accumulation in the arteries, which is a key driver of heart disease.
—Amy Isler, Verywell Health, 9 Sep. 2025
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Amy Woodyatt, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
Momentum is oversold, but there are no signs of accumulation.
—Bill Sarubbi, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
That’s wisdom, not the accumulation of facts.
—Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
Keep Cholesterol in Check High cholesterol can lead to plaque accumulation in the arteries, which is a key driver of heart disease.
—Amy Isler, Verywell Health, 9 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for accumulation
Noun
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The test focused on cushioning, rebound, and other performance indicators that usually take weeks of athlete data collection.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Sep. 2025
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By adding a new molecule— borrowed from skin care—to their Infiniment Coty Paris fragrance collection, perfumes achieve the unusually long wear time of 30 hours, something none of us or our industry judges have ever seen or smelled before.—
Megan McIntyre,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Let stand until mixture thickens to a pudding-like consistency, about 5 minutes.—
Jasmine Smith,
Southern Living,
11 Sep. 2025
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These clinics might employ a mixture of anesthesiologists, psychiatrists, nurse practitioners and therapists, but quality and safety vary across clinics.—
Rachel Hale,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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The brutal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk on a college campus shocked the nation and is forcing it to confront what appears to be an increase in political violence across the country.—
Carlie Procell,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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Labor Department data released on Thursday showed one of the biggest weekly increases in jobless claims in more than a year.—
John Towfighi,
CNN Money,
14 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Could only participate, if surreptitiously, in this long-overdue cumulation.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Banfield had to go back to the pile, as it was called, for nine straight days.—
Rachel Burchfield,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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The pile-in on Broadcom comes after Oracle nearly turned into a hyperscaler overnight.—
Pia Singh,
CNBC,
10 Sep. 2025
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Participation alone seems to be the end goal, the assemblage of a cacophony of voices without any avenues to interrogate the way power is shared or negotiated in collective spaces.—
Kate Wagner,
Curbed,
5 Sep. 2025
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The opening credits, an assemblage of archival footage from various eras, show sheets of newspaper being used to do things like wrap fish and line litter boxes.—
Matt Zoller Seitz,
Vulture,
4 Sep. 2025
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In jumbles of old stones that, to me, are barely legible as the remains of buildings, Cocon López could see the entire timeline of old Aké and how later people interacted with and repurposed what came before.—
Lizzie Wade,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 May 2025
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Baker also leads the orchestra, which sounds grand — although the sound in the arts center’s Pugh Theater often left musicians, lead singers and chorus all at the same level, with actors speaking over all of it at the same time to create a sonic jumble.—
Matthew J. Palm,
Orlando Sentinel,
27 Feb. 2025
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Low-mass stars form in relatively orderly fashion, but one theory of the formation of more massive stars — the type of stars that go supernova — is that their accretion of infalling gas is more chaotic.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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He’s also buried under an accretion of myth and myth-busting.—
Adam Begley,
The Atlantic,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Accumulation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accumulation. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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