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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
accrue .
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Examples
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Also it is my opinion, that the first clause in relation to a papist's taking by descent, which is in no sort within the second clause, does extend to those who take by descent, though they be past the age of eighteen and a half at the time when their title accrues, so as to lay them under a temporary disability, (viz.) until they conform.
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"You do that often enough and it kind of accrues," she says.
USATODAY.com News 2010
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"You do that often enough and it kind of accrues," she says.
USATODAY.com News 2010
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And ask when the lender adds or "accrues" interest.
U.S. News 2008
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If you deposit funds into a CD and the interest it accrues exceeds the FDIC coverage limit, then the overage isn't protected.
Certificates Of Deposit Aren't Risk-Free - The Consumerist 2009
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Before analyzing the veracity or accuracy of these words about Cuba as a country that promotes terrorism in its most direct sense, before even calculating how much wealth the government of the Island actually accrues through these flights, we should look at the matter through the following prism:
Yoani Sanchez: Freedom to Travel to Cuba: What Does It Mean for American Democracy? Yoani Sanchez 2011
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Internet is a more efficient market, but now someone has to figure out how to pay for the benefit of having more than one source cover a story, when the benefit accrues to society, and NOT the readers of the story.
Matthew Yglesias » NYT Going Paid: What Does It Mean for Me? 2010
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Before analyzing the veracity or accuracy of these words about Cuba as a country that promotes terrorism in its most direct sense, before even calculating how much wealth the government of the Island actually accrues through these flights, we should look at the matter through the following prism:
Yoani Sanchez: Freedom to Travel to Cuba: What Does It Mean for American Democracy? Yoani Sanchez 2011
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It is sold in units that cost $15.99 a month for $1,250 worth of coverage for one person's legal expenses, which accrues annually.
Breaking Up Is Easier to Do Rebecca L. McClay 2011
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San Francisco-based Wells missed analyst earnings expectations for the first time in over two years, and two measures closely watched by investors—revenue, or the income a bank accrues before expenses, and net interest margin, or the spread the bank earns between the funds it borrows and the money it lends out—declined from a year earlier.
Citi Shines, but Investors Shrug Suzanne Kapner 2011
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