How to Use accretion in a Sentence

accretion

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  • Travel conditions will be hazardous due to a tenth of an inch of ice accretion.
    — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Along with the accretion of hardware and new tools came the less desirable.
    — Ryan D'agostino, Popular Mechanics, 31 Oct. 2020
  • The accretion of ills surely skirts the edge of overwhelming.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Closer to a host star, gas giants are thought to form by the accretion of a large rocky core which then starts drawing in gas.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Apr. 2022
  • The ornate and the sober, the lovingly reclaimed and the state-of-the-art, the one-offs and the series—all meet and mingle here in a happy accretion of faultless good taste.
    — Maria Shollenbarger, ELLE Decor, 18 Oct. 2018
  • The pixels accumulate above, then rush to the ground in a thick accretion that spreads out on the stage floor, then flows up to cover the entire scrim.
    — Catherine Tharin, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The next goal is to obtain a sequence of images or a video, showing the time variability of the accretion flow around the black hole.
    — Avi Loeb, Scientific American, 2 Aug. 2020
  • Any future earnings accretion would come on top of that.
    — Telis Demos, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2020
  • This is the first time that astronomers have seen an accretion disc in an extragalactic area.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Nov. 2023
  • France, like every culture, has a soul, the accretion of art, history, the people, and their struggles.
    — Rick Steves, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Feb. 2022
  • The global status quo is the accretion of every policy action—zillions of them—in the nearly 75 years since the end of World War II.
    — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 9 May 2018
  • The difference in speed is the evidence the astronomers needed to determine that an accretion disc is present around the star.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Nov. 2023
  • As the matter gathers, a spinning disc called an accretion disc is forming.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Sometimes, this results in the accretion of an especially large amount of star stuff.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Suddenly, the boys and girls were running at a new level, swept up by an accretion of delicious detail, and a zest for more.
    — Marc Bloom, Outside Online, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Yet the accretion of little gestures—hands thrust in and out of pockets, gazes redirected—is one of Rooney’s sharpest distinctions as a stylist.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2021
  • As a result, the conditions would take too long for core accretion, if possible at all.
    — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The contribution of these non-coral species to reef growth, called secondary accretion, helps shape the surface and guide the settlement of larval corals.
    — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2016
  • Quasars are some of the brightest objects in the universe and are thought to be powered by the accretion of matter onto a supermassive black hole.
    — Mark Zastrow, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2022
  • As with so much in Ostlund’s work, none of them come as major Hollywood-style epiphanies; a slow accretion of events chip away at a character.
    — Steven Zeitchik, latimes.com, 20 May 2017
  • These rates are flat values applied across the landscape and can be used to highlight how accretion can offset sea level rise.
    — Alex Putterman, courant.com, 4 Nov. 2021
  • While much of the area escaped significant issues from ice, there are at least patchy zones of some heftier accretion.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Katie Holmes has spent the past couple of weeks tramping through Manhattan in an accretion of unusual shoes.
    — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The film, too, is a slow, gradual accretion of detail that builds to a spectacular vista across the ridges and troughs, the spires and valleys of a lifelong, life-defining friendship.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 18 May 2022
  • The newfound drifter instead provides strong support for the core accretion model.
    — Nola Taylor Redd, Scientific American, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Astronomers believe this happens through a process called core accretion.
    — Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2019
  • Many journalists contributed to the steady accretion of facts.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2022
  • There has been a steady accretion of power by the executive, often as a result of a supine legislative branch.
    — Dan Balz, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Sep. 2019
  • And since astronomers were finding more planets around those stars, it was taken as proof that core accretion was forming those planets.
    — Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 4 May 2022
  • At first, in the ’80s, researchers magnetized the accretion disks in their simulations just a little.
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 May 2021

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