accrues

• present tense form

  present tense

  Used to describe things happening now or regularly.

  of accrue (3rd person singular).
  accrue

  verb (used without object)

  to happen or result as a natural growth, addition, etc.

Example Sentences

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accrues

The biggest tax benefit from municipals accrues to those with the highest incomes in the highest-tax locations — but you don’t need to be a multimillionaire to benefit.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

Identity isn’t just in one’s politics or favorite foods; it accrues in little things, glances and gestures and bits of wordless self-expression.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

“While most claims for exclusion are for modest amounts, the bulk of the excluded gains, and thus tax savings, accrues to high-income individuals making large exclusion claims,” the Treasury economists wrote.

From Barron's ● May 13, 2026

But much more than that, it is a story about how one individual, when he accrues enough wealth and influence and connections, can work the entire global system to his benefit for very nefarious purposes.

From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2026

By a sort of obverse implication it does, however, possess, in the philosophic tradition, a positive content which accrues to it by virtue of what it denies.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode

Related Words

• accumulate
• amass