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Six example sentences with accretion, each labelled with its topic.
The sandbar grew by slow accretion, gaining a meter each winter as the current dropped its load at the bend.
Environment
The pension grew by quiet accretion for thirty years, a few hundred pounds each month and nothing ever withdrawn.
Finance
The college is not one building but an accretion of six centuries, each hall added against the wall of the last.
Architecture
Planets form by accretion, as dust grains collide and stick until the growing clump can pull in gas by gravity.
Science
The scholarly edition grew by accretion, each editor adding footnotes until they outweighed the poem itself.
Literature
The app's settings screen was an accretion of ten years of requests, with forty toggles nobody could explain.
Technology
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