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to increase in amount as time passes
They accrued vacation time throughout the calendar year. A penny-pincher who is accruing a fortune by spending next to nothing.
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Recent Examples of accrued
Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
Military members are supposed to receive accrued pay after the shutdown is over.
—Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
Another reason notice matters is that some states govern the payout of accrued and unused leave to departing employees and may specify the timeframe for paying their final paycheck.
—Johnny C. Taylor Jr, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
The employer should include the value of accrued and unused vacation, including the value of vacation time accrued during garden leave itself, in the employees’ final paycheck at the end of garden leave.
—Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2025
If the amount of the penalty exceeds the amount of your accrued and unpaid interest, then a reduction of principal would be required in order to pay the penalty:
Terms apply.
—Andreina Rodriguez, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2024
This allows employees to keep track of accrued or available PTO and effortlessly request days off.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 23 Dec. 2025
The financing will come from interest money that’s accrued from the city’s 2017 Elevate Denver bond program.
—Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 23 Dec. 2025
In reality, the value accrued to the application layer, meaning the companies that used that infrastructure to serve customers.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2025
Few presidents willingly relinquish powers accrued by their predecessors.
—Stewart Ulrich, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2025
The governor, sources familiar with his political actions say, has accrued more than 100,000 contributors who hadn’t previously donated to his campaigns.
—Amie Parnes, The Hill, 10 Dec. 2025
The game is a work of love, and most of the original team of 30 brought together by Expedition 33’s director and designer, Guillaume Broche, were made up of industry friends and contacts accrued over the years.
—Richard Newby, Time, 6 Dec. 2025
By working, obtaining scholarships, and with some help from her family, Williams has accrued no college debt, while remaining focused on her academics and interests.
—Nicole Gregory, Oc Register, 4 Dec. 2025
Those streamers that have accrued more than a million subscribers in the country will be required to spend a portion of their local revenue or investment on original Australian shows or films after the government introduced a bill outlining new rules.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 7 Nov. 2025
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Long criticized by fiscal hawks and ratings agencies as a one-time fix, sweeping accrued money out of TIF districts has increasingly become a short-term lifeline for both the city and — especially this year — Chicago Public Schools.
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Here are the luckiest stores, their locations and the total amount of total winnings accrued over the past five holiday seasons.
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But the share accumulated by the 100-plus club amounted to just 2%.—
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The study also showed that sediment accumulated at an average rate of just over four centimeters per thousand years, allowing researchers to align individual rock layers with specific orbital cycles.—
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Nor did their eyes shed tears over the burning library that raiders furnished with the ashes of seven thousand books, which the novelist Mamdouh Azzam had collected over fifty years inside his house in Suwayda.—
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These dusters feature a slim flat base covered with a washable and reusable microfiber cloth that can slide under the bottom of appliances, picking up dust and other debris that has collected.—
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Scarce aid can be maximized by investing in approaches that reach more people at less cost.—
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Dior carried out tests on 69 laser patients in China before treatment and up to three months afterwards, and found that by using the serum alongside laser, recovery was not only sped up, but the results were maximized.—
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The alleged success of Housing First does not come from aggregated homelessness data, but from case studies of different homelessness programs.—
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Haunting and wonderful images coalesce then dissipate, or recur without a sense of aggregated force.—
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The Caribbean-facing region of Quintana Roo has some of Mexico's busiest and most built-up beachfronts, but visitors looking for a more serene escape will love still-secret destinations like Mahahual.—
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While the Classic looks a little more built-up, and has what may be a larger, physical rotating bezel, both watches have what’s known in some circles as a squircle design.—
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“Accrued.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accrued. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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