as in accumulated
to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass
snow piling up in the driveway at a rapid pace
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By the end of the transfer window the club had accumulated 14 new players and seven of them started against Villa.—
Michael Walker,
New York Times,
22 Sep. 2025 -
Travelling the world for work, Caleb and Mary Jo had accumulated an idiosyncratic collection of ceramics, lithographs, paintings, masks, and photographs.—
Dana Goodyear,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the federal courthouse in Des Moines following the arrest, calling for Roberts’s release.—
Richard Hall,
Time,
27 Sep. 2025
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Everyone is gathered around to hear the evidence that will tell us there wasn’t a ghost at all, nor a demon haunting these proceedings.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Piled (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/piled%20%28up%29. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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