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adjective

accumulated

gathered or built up gradually over a period of time

In a sentence

Six example sentences with accumulated, each labelled with its topic.

  • The accumulated dividends from twenty years of small quarterly payments finally covered the deposit on a modest house.

    Finance

  • Divers measured accumulated plastic on the reef, layer after layer laid down by every winter storm since the harbor opened.

    Environment

  • Accumulated fatigue from six straight training weeks finally showed, so the coach cut Friday's session to a slow jog.

    Fitness

  • Forty years of accumulated readings from the same buoy let the team spot a warming trend that any single decade would hide.

    Science

  • The accumulated backlog of unanswered tickets reached four thousand before the company hired a second support team.

    Business

  • The accumulated wear of twelve seasons showed in his knees, and the coach capped his minutes at twenty-five.

    Basketball

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