as in cumulative
produced by a series of additions of identical or similar things the story of his encounter with the bear was awash with accretive exaggeration, the bear becoming larger with each retelling of the tale

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Recent Examples of accretive In the first full fiscal year post-close, Dick’s expects the transaction to be accretive to earnings and deliver between $100 million and $125 million in cost synergies. Gabrielle Fonrouge, CNBC, 28 May 2025 The deal is expected to be accretive to earnings per share in the first year. Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 27 May 2025 While Dick’s expects the transaction to be accretive to earnings in the first full fiscal year post-close, and to deliver between $100 million and $125 million in cost synergies, Foot Locker has been struggling for some time. Gabrielle Fonrouge,ali McCadden, CNBC, 15 May 2025 There are also several billions of dollars worth of expense and network synergies that should make this deal highly accretive to earnings per share. Jeff Marks, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for accretive
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cumulative
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  • Inflows were valued at $7.6 billion, which in turn drove cumulative assets under management (AUMs) to $382.8 billion an all-time peak.
    Royston Wild, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
  • The team has the worst cumulative point differential through 18 games in the history of the WNBA at -320, significantly worse than the 2011 Tulsa Shock team that started with a -260 differential and went on to set a league record with 20 consecutive losses.
    Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 7 July 2025

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“Accretive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accretive. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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