Learn How to Pronounce ACCUMULATE – ACCUMULATE in a Sentence
Learn How to Pronounce ACCUMULATE – ACCUMULATE in a Sentence
Learn how to pronounce ACCUMULATE correctly by understanding the syllables. Then see ACCUMULATE in a sentence along with an illustration as a memory aid.
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ACCUMULATE – it’s a verb with 4 syllables. Stress the 2nd syllable.
It’s pronounced: uh◦KYOO◦myoo-late
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ACCUMULATE
Definition:
to gather together, to amass, to acquire an increasing number or amount
The clipart shows a hand grabbing a pile of money.
Here is an illustrated sentence example.
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The picture shows hundreds of books on a bookshelf.
Sentence example: Over the years, she accumulated a large number of books!
In other words, over the years, she gathered or acquired an increasing number of books.
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Examples of ACCUMULATE from news items:
“We watched the memory improvements accumulate over time with each passing day,” said study author Robert Reinhart, a professor in the department of psychological and brain sciences at Boston University, during a press briefing.
Source: The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/23316230/brain-stimulation-memory-short-long-alzheimers
Small decisions and non-decisions tend to accumulate until, to paraphrase the character Mike, who appeared in both series, we find ourselves at the end of a road, not necessarily conscious of where it began.
Source: New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/arts/television/better-call-saul-ariel-levine-kathleen-williams-foshee.html
Elon Musk offloaded $6.9 billion worth of Tesla stock — his biggest sale on record — to accumulate cash in case the billionaire is forced to follow through on an agreement to acquire Twitter.
Source: Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/08/12/weekly-stocks-recap-0814/
The new research contends that in the current climate, the average location of the snow line must move inward and upward, leaving a smaller area in which ice would be able to accumulate.
Source: Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/08/29/greenland-ice-sheet-sea-level/
Through an upgrade later this decade, the LHC will accumulate over 20 times more data than it has collected so far, allowing it to make more precise measurements of the Higgs.
Source: Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/physicists-struggle-to-unite-around-future-plans/
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