How to Use accumulator in a Sentence

accumulator

noun
  • The start/stop accumulator endcap may have missing or loose bolts.
    — USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Trump — both the man and the brand — stands as a symbol of greed and excess, as an accumulator of wealth, not a sharer.
    — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Know, 11 Nov. 2019
  • That’s what a copay accumulator feels like.
    — Karen Arace, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2026
  • Since the start of June, ether accumulators have purchased 1% of the coin in circulation.
    — Tanaya MacHeel, CNBC, 29 July 2025
  • Nobody in their right mind from the compulsive accumulator class pays the punitive federal estate tax.
    — WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
  • Twenty of the panels were accumulators with the same design, so the students started with these, then worked through smaller groupings of panels.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2026
  • With this in mind, fantasy owners should focus on stat accumulators rather than a specific position.
    — Michael Beller, SI.com, 2 July 2018
  • In insurance jargon, this tactic is called a copay accumulator.
    — John Wilkerson, STAT, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Dealers will inspect the start/stop transmission accumulator—the part that is potentially missing bolts—and replace it if any bolts are missing.
    — Colin Beresford, Car and Driver, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Claiming all sorts of health benefits for these accumulators, Reich marketed them.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Digital is now an ether accumulator, having exited bitcoin mining in June to focus on its ether treasury and staking plans.
    — Tanaya MacHeel, CNBC, 20 Aug. 2025
  • In this instance, the focus of the case was on a wonky, but significant tool called copay accumulators, which are used by health plans to blunt the cost of medicines prescribed to their beneficiaries.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The system’s accumulator bottle, mounted behind the front bumper, is enormous—a hint of the kind of pressure required to damp and stabilize the oscillating mass above.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
  • At issue are copay accumulators, which insurers use to blunt copay assistance offered by drug companies.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Backing multiple games at a low goal total Where accumulators are concerned, backing both teams to surpass a low goals total is something everyone should have in their thoughts.
    — SI.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Wagner also wasn't a stat accumulator - someone who stuck around stacking numbers even while losing effectiveness.
    — Matt Young, Chron, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Preserving the privacy of such data through zero knowledge proofs and cryptographic accumulators can also be done.
    — Vipin Bharathan, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Nonetheless, accumulators are gaining most of the attention and prompting growing outrage.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The Crohn's and Colitis Foundation published a graphic showing how patients end up paying more out of pocket for their meds when an accumulator program is in place.
    — Katie Wedell, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2022
  • In other words, the conservancy will be an accumulator and facilitator of research on what the bugs do, while the vault ensures that viable microbes are always available if and when their function is understood.
    — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 11 June 2019
  • Health plans use tools, called copay accumulators, to keep tabs on whether patients or drug companies were paying the tab for a certain medicine — and don’t count any drug company assistance toward a patient’s deductible or plan maximum.
    — John Wilkerson, STAT, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Patients Come First implores California to recognize the harm caused by copay accumulators and keep patient choice at the center of the discussion.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
  • The can maximize accumulator capacity, like Chevrolet does with the Volt, or run a smaller (and lighter) system like the Toyota uses in their Prius.
    — Tony Borroz, WIRED, 8 May 2009
  • Using legumes/dynamic accumulators and/or animal manures to cycle nutrients through the system.
    — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 6 June 2023
  • Ether, rather than bitcoin, has been leading the crypto marker for several weeks thanks to regulatory tailwinds, a boom in interest in stablecoins and buying en masse by a new cohort of corporate ether accumulators.
    — Tanaya MacHeel, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2025
  • These accumulators, which target specialty medicines that are typically more expensive and are often injected or infused, do not count the value of any coupons toward out-of-pocket medicine costs that are applied toward deductibles.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The Food and Drug Administration questioned his claims about the orgone accumulator and believed that the device was a cover for more illicit activities.
    — Washington Post, 18 June 2021
  • With a copay accumulator someone with a $5,000 deductible who is using a copay coupon or patient assistance will still owe that full deductible if the assistance money runs out late in the year, Koulianos said.
    — Katie Wedell, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Over the past 30 days, bitcoin accumulators excluding Strategy bought 1,000 BTC.
    — Tanaya MacHeel, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2026
  • More than 20 states, including Georgia and Texas, have enacted protections banning copay accumulator programs — with bipartisan support.
    — Karen Arace, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2026

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