as in accumulative
produced by a series of additions of identical or similar things
a cumulative weight gain of 20 pounds over the course of a year
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Recent Examples of cumulative
The athlete with the best cumulative result across the two races in each category wins a $100,000 prize.
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Zack Pierce, New York Times, 3 May 2025
Nina won’t turn her back on the young women trapped in a cycle of abuse and a lack of education, but the cumulative toll of the experience was one Kulumbegashvili wrestled with while writing.
—Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 2 May 2025
Only three other people in the world have spent more cumulative time on spacewalks than Williams.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 2 May 2025
In all, Chatterton’s teams have produced a cumulative record of 501-237, a .679 winning percentage.
—Laurence Miedema, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2025
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Zack Pierce, New York Times, 3 May 2025
Nina won’t turn her back on the young women trapped in a cycle of abuse and a lack of education, but the cumulative toll of the experience was one Kulumbegashvili wrestled with while writing.
—Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 2 May 2025
Only three other people in the world have spent more cumulative time on spacewalks than Williams.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 2 May 2025
In all, Chatterton’s teams have produced a cumulative record of 501-237, a .679 winning percentage.
—Laurence Miedema, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cumulative
Adjective
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The accumulative effects of a whole comprised of many different foods with artificial dyes, consumed over a lifetime, is even harder to assess.—
Lauren J. Young,
Scientific American,
22 Apr. 2025
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The heat is accumulative but not terribly aggressive in spice, and the bits of water chestnut offer freshness and crunch.—
Jenn Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Monk fruit is considered a food additive, as is any substance or chemical added to food during the preparation process.—
Angelica Bottaro,
Verywell Health,
15 May 2025
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The company still lauds the use of three, all-natural ingredients, but without any mention of additive free.—
John Kell,
Forbes.com,
13 May 2025
Adjective
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Whereas Wi-Fi 6 offers merely incremental speed increases over Wi-Fi 5, Wi-Fi 7 is all about lightning-fast connections.—
Iyaz Akhtar,
PC Magazine,
13 May 2025
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But today’s environment demands more than incremental improvement.—
Rahul Saluja,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
Adjective
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This year, the number of high school graduates will peak at around 3.9 million and then begin a gradual descent that will result in about 13% fewer by 2041.—
Paul Weinstein Jr,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2025
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Instead, the change was a gradual softening, a growing sense that my shoulders had dropped a bit and my tongue wasn’t glued so tightly to the roof of my mouth.—
Anya Meyerowitz,
Glamour,
9 May 2025
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“Cumulative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cumulative. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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