We live in an accumulative society.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

There is a well-marked distinction between the excitable and what I will call the accumulative temperament in patients.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not] Reference

This very straining action is an accumulative one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXXII, June, 1911 Water Purification Plant, Washington, D. C. Results of Operation.] Reference

But I think it was also accumulative of human error.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 29, 2001] Reference

The accumulative tale is the simplest form of the tale.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Fairy Tales] Reference

And what they're responding to is the accumulative effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 25, 2004] Reference

At this time the accumulative yield is approximately 10.85.    From Wordnik.com.  [PREMIER CASTRO 20 MAY REPORT ON SUGAR HARVEST] Reference

What's going on in Asia right now is an accumulative effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 27, 2005] Reference

MESERVE: I'm told that it was more of a accumulative assessment.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 22, 2003] Reference

We know that it is an accumulative effect, so the less the better.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 25, 2007] Reference

In other words, science is an accumulative quest for understanding.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

The following American forms of the accumulative story may be noted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference

A curious Sinhalese accumulative story, No. 251 in Parker's collection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference

The accumulative or clock story 205 a. Tales of simple repetition 206 1.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Fairy Tales] Reference

Sun exposure is accumulative over your lifetime, beginning in childhood.    From Wordnik.com.  ['My Life Has Been Full Of Narrow Escapes'] Reference

The accumulative forces of centuries are pressing hard upon time present.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference

Now hard cider is an accumulative drink; it piles up interest like debt or unpaid taxes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Plains] Reference

The accumulative effect is strange and beautiful, yet rooted firmly in an accessible reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Persons: Mighty Movie Podcast: These Moments in Time: Michael Almereyda on Paradise] Reference

The accumulative net interest margin in the first half was 2.99%, dropping from 3.32% year earlier.    From Wordnik.com.  [KEB logs 11% profit drop] Reference

Old Woman and Her Pig, accumulative type, 207, 208; realistic type, 225-26; an exercise of memory, 226.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Fairy Tales] Reference

The experience of stillness is accumulative: The more we are still, so slowly, the mind becomes quieter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Meditation Your Friend or Foe?] Reference

It brought the accumulative total of aid from Japan to Lesotho to R49,5 million over the 12-year period.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The unilateral move was taken because more cabin crew were booking off sick, citing accumulative fatigue.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The ecoregion crosses the ancient peneplain that to the east gradually transforms into accumulative plain.    From Wordnik.com.  [West Siberian broadleaf and mixed forests] Reference

Plenty, if you believe in the accumulative effect theory, particularly when it comes to vulnerable young minds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ads on the School Bus Go Round and Round] Reference

And how dare you try to tell me that my friend did not suffer when she has, over the years, of accumulative effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 13, 2007] Reference

The charge (ii) is an accumulative charge to take account of the quantity of electricity used in a particular period.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

The accumulative effect of exposure to ultra-violet radiation would continue to cause skin cancer until at least 2050.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Is he going to do something about stopping accumulative voting now that he's found out that it exists and he's not for it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing By Dee Dee Myers] Reference