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Gladwell says the best succeed because of hard work, innate talent and a confluence of circumstances that some call accumulative advantage, and some call luck.

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There is a well-marked distinction between the excitable and what I will call the accumulative temperament in patients.

Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not 1860

The genius of the language has been described as accumulative: it "tends rather to add syllables or letters, making farther distinctions in objects already before the mind, than to introduce new words."

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836

But by and large, the industry doesn't have the kind of accumulative knowledge of making film after film after film after film.

3D Boot Camp: A New Dimension For Live-Action Film 2010

Even when a game doesn't have that kind of accumulative structure, like CoH, some players still follow the same imperatives until they've been around long enough to realize that it doesn't matter so much.

The Golden 1M: Please Welcome the Next Candidate, World of Warcraft 2004

It belongs to the type of story known as the "accumulative," of which "The House That Jack Built" is the purest model.

Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906

They have invented a kind of accumulative or constructive evidence, by which many actions either totally innocent in themselves, or criminal in a much inferior degree, shall, when united, amount to treason, and subject the person to the highest penalties inflicted by the law.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell David Hume 1743

He's watchful, accumulative, with a good range of well-executed shots, but there's nothing particularly eye-catching about him; he looks pretty good, not extraordinary.

Cool-Hand Trott Leads Way Richard Lord 2011

He's watchful, accumulative, with a good range of well-executed shots, but there's nothing particularly eye-catching about him; he looks pretty good, not extraordinary.

Cool-Hand Trott Leads Way Richard Lord 2011

We are not goddesses, divas or supermoms any more than we're bitches, shrews, sluts or nursemaids, and the damage of getting it wrong has been accumulative, making the picture of a woman's role seem quite grim and hopeless when it's really far from it.

Chauncey Zalkin: A Better Way To Represent Women Chauncey Zalkin 2011