Example Sentences

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Most of the children held on the border will have accumulated traumas, Dr. Brabeck said.

From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2018

By the time Scott returns to Earth, he will have accumulated roughly ten times that.

From Nature • Mar. 25, 2015

The hope is that they will have accumulated enough data before the Tevatron shutdown to establish if the elusive Higgs boson exists in its long-predicted form.

From Reuters • Sep. 30, 2011

Combine that with the flight to Boston and back to start the month, the club will have accumulated nearly 18,000 air miles in September.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2010

If there are no longer any they will surely have left enough oxygen for three people, if only at the bottom of those ravines where it will have accumulated by reason of its weight!

From The Moon-Voyage by Verne, Jules