accumulate
verb (used with object)
to gather or collect, often in gradual degrees; heap up.
had accumulated
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past perfectof accumulate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Radcliff had accumulated about $16,000 in cash from scholarships paid directly to him, in addition to his full ride at Tulane.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
Earlier this year, Anthropic signed new deals with cloud giants Google and Amazon, as well as Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which recently began building a business selling excess data-center capacity that it had accumulated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Without realising it, I had accumulated several pouches of creatine, vitamin D, magnesium, collagen, an all-in-one green supplement, and some tablets designed to help with the ups and downs of perimenopause.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
At the end of the study, the team measured how much plaque had accumulated in the brain.
From Science Daily ● May 2, 2026
In the morning, Duane volunteered to clear the snow that blocked the girl’s tunnel entrance and all the snow that had accumulated beyond it too.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
