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Amassing retirement savings has been hard for Gen Xers, who launched their careers just as a shift in American work culture was beginning.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 1, 2025

Amassing points can bring bonus payments and career advancement.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 21, 2023

Amassing an inventory, he said, at first required the type of canvassing done by fledgling political campaigns.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 3, 2023

Amassing national wealth, in turn, depended on maintaining a favorable balance of trade, a situation in which a country exports goods of greater value than it imports.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Amassing money, per se, meant little to him, except as a success symbol that came out of the life he had known.

From The Planet Strappers by Gallun, Raymond Z.