The phrase "accretion of damage" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the gradual accumulation of harm or deterioration over time, often in contexts related to physical objects, environments, or even emotional states.
Example: "The accretion of damage to the building over the years has made it unsafe for occupancy."
Alternatives: "cumulative damage" or "gradual deterioration".
It was never going to be one single thing that would loosen Mr. Murdoch's grip, but rather the steady accretion of damage from a ticktock of criminal, civil and governmental inquiries that will go on for months and years.
If the steady accretion of damage to our cells can be arrested – so-called negligible senescence – then perhaps we won't have an upper age limit.
The first of these is self-evident; genomic instability is characterised by the accretion of damage to the genotype; it is a mutator phenotype.
Aging is not due to the progressive breakdown of a complex biochemical machine due to accretions of damage afflicting an entity that could otherwise continue functioning indefinitely.
The dominance of three iceberg-fragmentation mechanisms within Vaigat, compared to the multitude of damage accretion mechanisms operating at glacial termini, suggests that the number of processes driving iceberg disintegration reduces as icebergs drift away from the calving front.
Under these conditions, as no single mechanism of damage accretion dominates the iceberg calving process, the size-frequency distribution of the icebergs produced will not reflect a single formative process, resulting in the production of a scale-invariant power-law distribution of calved iceberg sizes6.
The third term accounts for the accretion of new species from the gas phase, in terms of the accretion rate kacc.
I anticipate an accretion of Olympic action.
Science is an accretion of provisional certainties.
That's not an accretion of truth.
The simple accretion of detail has a cumulative effect.
