It does best where there is not much sand accretion. From LearnThat.org. [Yourdictionary.com]
The Reserve's marshes and beaches are among the best-studied sites nationally with regard to long-term accretion and erosion (over thousands of years). From Wordnik.com. [Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maine] Reference
The accreted matter forms a disk called accretion disk. From Wordnik.com. [Launchpad Day 3: More WIRO, now with open dome] Reference
This is not from the black hole itself, but from a disk of material - called the accretion disk - that forms around the black hole. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Astronomy] Reference
What could be more extreme than the conditions of the swirling cloud of matter surrounding a black hole, known as the accretion disk?. From Wordnik.com. [Could a Black Hole Fit in Your Computer or In Your Pocket? | Universe Today] Reference
"accretion" - happened over the course of 30 million years. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
In the next two quarters what kind of accretion do you expect?. From Wordnik.com. [Moneycontrol Top Headlines] Reference
Q: So what kind of accretion you see having this on your revenue?. From Wordnik.com. [Moneycontrol Top Headlines] Reference
Such observations are wonderfully true to human nature; but no less wonderfully opposed to any 'accretion' theory. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts on Religion] Reference
He admitted this in his book "The Expanding Earth", but in recent years the mechanism called "accretion" has come onto the stage. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Nor must we despise them when we reflect upon their power of accretion. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873] Reference
With any accretion allowed, the concentration of wealth is irresistible. From Wordnik.com. [Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View] Reference
The only difficulty in this accretion is to secure debtors that will not die. From Wordnik.com. [Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View] Reference
The collection thus formed grew by slow accretion until, in 1851, it had accumulated. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
The planets might have been formed by the gradual accretion of such discrete bodies. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference
It is but the natural operation of the principle of interest -- accretion from age to age. From Wordnik.com. [Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View] Reference
It increases rather by accretion than by internal growth, and its color depends upon the humors. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century] Reference
The madstone is popularly supposed to be an accretion found somewhere in the system of a white stag. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
(The answer is) that by this means, an accretion of many virtues is made even in the celestial regions. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
The English reverence is not for statute law, but for the common law which is the slow accretion of ages. From Wordnik.com. [Humanly Speaking] Reference
The second was visual cues, perhaps a windshield wiper, seeing an accretion on a knob outside the window. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 13, 2009] Reference
After all, the accretion of that fortune depended on the government's educational system, justice system. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2008] Reference
Every one conversant with the state of our colonies, knows how beneficial this languid accretion has been. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Naturally this tale of the gift must be a later accretion to the story, if it had the origin just suggested. From Wordnik.com. [The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints] Reference
Fifteen years of independence had caused the accretion of wonderfully few ganglia on this primeval structure. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference
This seems an obvious accretion in the original Hamlet story, and probably owing not to Saxo, but to his authority. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
It took years of dogged persistence and the accretion of many facts to get Iraq to fess up to its bioweapons program. From Wordnik.com. [What Can Iraq Do?] Reference
It is not any one film or program that is singularly disturbing, it is the appalling accretion of violent entertainment. From Wordnik.com. [Violence In Our Culture] Reference
On the other hand, there has been a rapid accretion of funds, in some instances to the amount of many millions of dollars. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
It is easy for an apologist for Muhammad to say that this is an accretion, something which engrafted itself on to a simpler system. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] Reference
Besides strategic arguments, low debt costs allow corporate buyers to dazzle investors with promises of earnings-per-share accretion. From Wordnik.com. [Private Equity: From Major to Miner] Reference
The various faculties of human sense and human intellect are so many molecules forming, by their accretion, the animal and the human soul. From Wordnik.com. [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1884] Reference
JOHN GOGLIA, FORMER NTSB BOARD MEMBER: Well, certainly the weather conditions were very conducive to the accretion of ice on any airplane. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 13, 2009] Reference
In my judgment, as he appears to be sufficiently comfortable under the mouldy accretion, he had better stumble on with it as long as he can. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862] Reference
Our social life is largely a form, a whirl, a commercial relation, a display, a duty, the result of external accretion, not of internal growth. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
Through the accretion of such little victories, the Iranians can eventually gain a veto over everything from economic policy to foreign alliances. From Wordnik.com. [The Sandman Cometh] Reference
France has stolen the march on Germany and Britain by projecting its centralized state system onto Europe via the rapid accretion of power in Brussels. From Wordnik.com. [Europe's Great Non-Debate] Reference
Better yet, they free their all-too-human subject from the accretion of legend, or rather they point out which parts of the legend are worth believing. From Wordnik.com. [Page Turners] Reference
This was followed in 1474 by a printing of Acro's notes, grown by accretion since their origin in the third century into a much larger body of commentary. From Wordnik.com. [Horace and His Influence] Reference
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