accrue
verb (used without object)
to happen or result as a natural growth, addition, etc.
are accruing
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present progressiveof accrue.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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You might also try searching for a therapy at a university training center for psychologists; often they provide lower-fee sessions with graduate students who are accruing hours toward their licenses and are well-supervised.
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2022
The fines are accruing at a rate of about $5,600 per day, officials said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2022
Meron Wondwosen said she has not yet sent her unvaccinated 6- and 10-year-old children back to their Northeast Washington charter school, and they are accruing unexcused absences each day.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2021
This is not a negligible revenue gain; it is a debt we are accruing against our greatest national wealth, our people.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 15, 2019
And the benefits are accruing to the most lowly and least educated no less than to those at the top.
From Working Women of Japan by Sidney Lewis Gulick
