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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accrete.

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Examples

  • In the course of time, the phrase accretes around itself a large but miscellaneous body of passions, convictions, com - mitments, complaints, and especially antipathies.

    ART FOR ART'S SAKE IREDELL JENKINS 1968

  • "They're usually cooked in red sauce, either as shown in a large container, or better, you might marinate them for a while first, throw them on the grill and then as they're cooking, you keep slathering the sauce, so that it kind of accretes like wax does on a wick when you're making candles, or like the layers of paint that get added on an old house over the decades.

    World Hum 2009

  • Each accretes notes as I do more thinking about what the topic of the post is going to be about.

    An Academic Blog « Beki's Blog (there's an original name) 2010

  • In fact, she believes in it, almost as an ars poetica: what accretes naturally always turns out to be exactly what's needed.

    Riding a bike with no hands L. Lee Lowe 2009

  • In fact, she believes in it, almost as an ars poetica: what accretes naturally always turns out to be exactly what's needed.

    Archive 2009-04-01 L. Lee Lowe 2009

  • Only, expectation accretes about the scene, all those images, and when it's finally time to write it, I'm so afraid of not living up to my imagination ...

    Howard Hughes and the War Against Morphological Tyranny sovay 2009

  • The star, which is a white dwarf, accretes gas from a companion star.

    Could A Faraway Supernova Threaten Earth? | Universe Today 2010

  • For Weil, the “Beast” of social media accretes power to the powerful by deception.

    Simone Weil and Social Media | Goblin Mercantile Exchange 2010

  • For Weil, the “Beast” of social media accretes power to the powerful by deception.

    BlogGoblin Mercantile Exchange 2010

  • The white dwarf component may glow more or less constantly as it accretes material from the red giant and heats it up at a steady rate, or the material may form an accretion disk around the white dwarf, like in dwarf novae.

    Unprecedented Eruption Catches Astronomers By Surprise | Universe Today 2010

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