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Her only interest is the accumulation of money.
A cloud is an accumulation of water vapour in the sky.
As the love of money has been, in all ages, one of the passions that have given great disturbance to the tranquillity of the world, there is no topic more copiously treated by the ancient moralists than the folly of devoting the heart to the accumulation of riches.
A lot has changed in the past three hundred years. People are no longer obsessed with the accumulation of things. We've eliminated hunger, want, the need for possessions. We've grown out of our infancy.
In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation.
Freckles are caused by the accumulation of melanocytes in a small area.
Success is the development of strengths. Failure is the accumulation of weaknesses.
An experiment on obese rats found that consuming probiotics for 30 days helps diminish the accumulation of fat in the liver.
Aluminum accumulation in the bone marrow results in osteomalacia.
If a holomorphic function has an infinite sequence of zeroes with an accumulation point, then it is identically zero.
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an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, or of honors
At the lowest point, a short length of tunnel was driven alongside the up line, with a cross passage, to serve as a sump and pump house for dealing with any accumulation of water.
After such an accumulation of mistakes in the treatment of lexical items, it comes as no surprise that the section on word formation on p. 133 is equally poor.
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