Sentence examples for become cumulative from inspiring English sources

The levels of sound become cumulative: what we have just heard live becomes a tape of the immediate past -- an original study in layers of time.

Boyd and Richerson (1996) argued that the capacity for observational learning (imitation) is a prerequisite for culture to become cumulative.

The show is not a history lesson, but all those events all happening at once... From the missile crisis to the assassinations to the riots and the civil rights unrest, the Richard Speck murders, the Texas [clock-tower murders] -- all these events start to become cumulative: 1968 was a conflagration and a coincidence of awfulness.

"Although the levels of acrylamide that people consume are lower than those we used in our study, we are concerned that over time this could become cumulative and cause damage," he says.

In a four-round tournament, missed chances like this have a negative effect that becomes cumulative.

At some point in history, humans began to exchange goods and in doing so, knowledge became cumulative, and thus was born the idea of progress.

Evolutionary social science a melding of parts of biology, psychology and anthropology did not become a cumulative research program until the last quarter of the 20th century.

A high degree of freedom in dislocation rearrangement, allowed by the present experimental conditions, resulted in a "random" arrangement of DDWs, in which misorientation vectors were largely scattered and misorientations across consecutive walls displayed a tendency to become more cumulative with increasing strain.

There are other things -- it became a cumulative effect: I became tired of doing a show every day.

As time elapsed, it became a cumulative process.

When the severity of environment is compounded with poor quality concrete and/or defective design and construction practices, the process of deterioration becomes interactive, cumulative and very rapid, and a cancerous growth that cannot be easily stopped.