accumulate
verb (used with object)
to gather or collect, often in gradual degrees; heap up.
am accumulating
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present progressiveof accumulate (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Your story will be included in the Congressional Record, along with the other outstanding discussions on the subject which I am accumulating.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now perhaps you are wondering why I am accumulating this Scripture evidence to show a matter which seems to all so plain.
From The State of the Blessed Dead by Henry Alford
It is for you and our only child that I am accumulating a fortune.
From Rich Enough a tale of the times by Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee
I have now got the materials, or am accumulating them daily.
From Endymion by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
Just now I am spending my days at the Library, where I am accumulating notes.
From The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by Aimée G. Leffingwel McKenzie
