How to Use cumulative effect in a Sentence

cumulative effect

noun
  • That cumulative effect of the heat after two to five days days could be deadly for some.
    — Andrew Kozak, CBS News, 30 June 2026
  • There’s also a cumulative effect from scrolling through our options that can wear us down.
    — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 3 May 2025
  • That cumulative effect of the heat after 2-5 days could be deadly for some.
    — Grant Gilmore, CBS News, 27 June 2026
  • That cumulative effect of the heat after 2-5 days could be deadly for some.
    — Andrew Kozak, CBS News, 28 June 2026
  • That cumulative effect of the heat after 2-5 days could be deadly for some.
    — Andrew Kozak, CBS News, 29 June 2026
  • The cumulative effect of the treatments is that the ever-present cloud of heavy stress and tension slowly lifts from my body.
    — Clare Coulson, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 July 2026
  • The cumulative effect of houses is large, because there's so many, but the amount of glass that needs to be treated at each one is small.
    — NPR, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The cumulative effect of these misguided decisions will be felt for years to come.
    — Stephen J. Ubl, STAT, 6 July 2023
  • The cumulative effect is New York swag coastal, with a sense of humor and mischief.
    — Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The hand-offs from one character to the other follow the lyrics and make the cumulative effect moving.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 30 June 2023
  • Each factor on its own might not seem like a lot, but their cumulative effect has left many people thinking twice about iceberg lettuce.
    — Audrey Bruno, SELF, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Biden’s speech dismissed the cumulative effect of rising prices that voters were living through.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The cumulative effect of these changes may yield higher payments for many borrowers.
    — Adam S. Minsky, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Or the cumulative effect of small delays in the thousands of decisions required to ensure a flight takes off on time.
    — Lalit Ahuja, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The long-term debt cycle is the cumulative effect of consecutive short-term cycles.
    — Hersh Shefrin, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
  • The cumulative effect of the story’s twists and turns is powerful, if somewhat predictable.
    — Dallasnews.com Staff, Dallas News, 9 Mar. 2023
  • But the cumulative effect of all of this has many experts in the eating disorder field worried about how this might affect their patients.
    — Cole Kazdin, TIME, 16 Apr. 2024
  • But the cumulative effect can be a narrowing of perspective.
    — Betsy Atkins, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2026
  • What is known is that there is a cumulative effect and four to six dosing sessions are recommended to see a significant shift in mood.
    — Aubree Nichols, ELLE, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Even though the overall pace of food inflation has slowed, the cumulative effect of price increases over the past few years is still weighing on consumers.
    — Matt Robison, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Each increase by itself does not amount to much, but the cumulative effect is to add to the unaffordability of the region.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 23 June 2024
  • From a strategic standpoint, the danger lies less in any single violation than in their cumulative effect.
    — Frederic Lemieux, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2026
  • But the cumulative effect of these policies and changes has made a sophisticated and high-impact scheme much less likely to succeed.
    — Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Brunson’s injury alone isn’t a cause for concern, but the cumulative effect the injury bug has had on the Knicks is beginning to take its toll.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The cumulative effect is of praising something distant, as if the true show’s subject is only worshipped but not understood.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 May 2025
  • If there’s been any cumulative effect in December, the Rams can take advantage.
    — Adam Grosbard, Orange County Register, 2 Sep. 2024
  • At the end of the Strip Law season, there are hints that its cumulative effect could be greater than the sum of its puns, near-rhymes and esoteric shoutouts.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The cumulative effect of this album is one of culmination, a sense that Garrett has mastered this range of heavy sounds and can now combine them at will.
    — Brad Sanders, Pitchfork, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The cumulative effect of the alternative news sources may far outshine the major media reports, and may have a much greater impact than any of us realize.
    — John Brandon, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
  • The cumulative effect has been a new global order, one that is increasingly shaped not by systems or institutions, but by the will of a single man.
    — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 15 Apr. 2026

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