How to Use aggregate in a Sentence

aggregate

1 of 3 adjective
  • The team with the highest aggregate score wins.
  • The university receives more than half its aggregate income from government sources.
  • The four teams came in with an aggregate record of 110-1.
    Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The Avalanche took the last three games by an aggregate 14-7.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2022
  • The side picked first in the draw will host the first leg of the two-leg aggregate-score series.
    Jamie Goldberg, OregonLive.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • If the teams split the series, the team with the best aggregate score would advance.
    Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 13 July 2018
  • Sevilla FC moves on to the round of 16 with a 3-2 aggregate lead.
    Scott Thompson, Fox News, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The top $5,000 prize for aggregate weight went to the Shea d Lady team.
    Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 6 Aug. 2020
  • The second leg leveled the aggregate score to 2-2, but Olimpia held the tiebreaker.
    Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 16 Dec. 2020
  • In case of a tie, the team with the best aggregate time wins. In cross-country skiing, the goal is to cross the finish line with the fastest time.
    Johanna Gretschel, SELF, 4 Feb. 2022
  • That’s four players at an aggregate AAV of $41 million, or half the cap.
    Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
  • Those at the lower end of the wage scale who, in aggregate terms, can benefit most from a boom are the hardest hit in the slump.
    David Blanchflower, The New York Review of Books, 8 May 2020
  • This was the largest drop since 2005 and the eighth consecutive year in which the state’s aggregate tax rate has declined.
    Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 28 Sep. 2022
  • James Butters was the big winner as his total aggregate weight of fish caught tipped the scales at 41.32 pounds.
    Emmett Hall, Sun Sentinel, 24 June 2022
  • If aggregate demand does not keep up, prices will fall—or at least not rise as fast.
    The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Boston outscored Philly by an aggregate 62 points in the series.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2023
  • The eight-day streak is one of the longest on record for bitcoin, and also one of the strongest in terms of aggregate performance.
    Jason Karaian, Quartz, 26 June 2019
  • The role of the fruit is played by chunks of sand and stone, known as aggregate, and the jello is the cement that holds everything together.
    Kevin Davenport, idahostatesman, 22 June 2018
  • The power of that information, even in aggregate and anonymized, is enough to have drawn big brands to the platform at launch.
    Sean O'Kane, The Verge, 24 July 2018
  • Autumn, though, totaled just more than 8 feet of aggregate distance from the hole on her two chips.
    Mitchell Gladstone, Arkansas Online, 4 Apr. 2022
  • In aggregate, total sales of this type of software rose 31% year over year to $15 billion.
    Barb Darrow, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2017
  • But the justices have come fairly close in the aggregate weight of their rulings, both this term and in previous ones.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 4 July 2022
  • First off, the tech industry accounts for a small share of aggregate employment in the US.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The aggregate effect of these forces has historically been to slow the rate at which the planet spins.
    Nate Hopper, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Four times this season Kentucky scored an aggregate score of at least 4,720.
    Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal, 20 Mar. 2020
  • Faith in government seems to have bottomed-out at around 17% in Gallup’s aggregate polling.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 10 Jan. 2023
  • This is a major aggregate use of the streaming services, and one that brings real economy to the obscure and old.
    Jordan Bromley, Billboard, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Thomas and Zalatoris squared off in a three-hole, aggregate playoff, which Thomas won with a 2-under score.
    Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 22 May 2022
  • Data from the first nine months of last year show aggregate household savings up by just over 100 percent.
    NBC News, 9 Feb. 2021
  • The Italian superpower brings a 2-0 aggregate lead back to their home ground.
    Nick Hennion, Chicago Tribune, 19 Apr. 2023
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aggregate

2 of 3 verb
  • The website aggregates content from many other sites.
  • That gave the film a 64% share of the nationwide weekend aggregate.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 16 Oct. 2022
  • In addition to the live events, streams of the events have aggregated millions of views.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The worksites are like prison yards in that these bodies aggregate by race.
    Melissa Chadburn, Longreads, 14 Dec. 2017
  • How to aggregate and use data is one of the great challenges of the digital age.
    John Warner, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2018
  • In the mid-90s, the courts started aggregating to itself more and more powers.
    Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 6 Aug. 2023
  • And worse, the people that aggregate or inspire their work are the ones getting the money and recognition.
    Emma Grey Ellis, WIRED, 18 June 2019
  • But watch out for both per-item limits and aggregate limits.
    Erica Lamberg, Robb Report, 14 Aug. 2021
  • Free the Nipple has been a cause for years, and the hashtag on Instagram now aggregates more than four million posts.
    New York Times, 22 Nov. 2019
  • The players' scores will be aggregated by the average rank from fan, player and media votes, and the fan vote will be the tiebreaker.
    Indystar Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 7 June 2023
  • The platforms track who has paid on time and funnels that data back to the credit bureaus, which aggregate it and sell it back to landlords.
    New York Times, 20 May 2021
  • Resilient neighborhoods aggregate up to the next layer in the model – the resilient town.
    Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Some people have also built websites that aggregate all the locations in a state, such as this one in New York.
    Joanna Stern, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2021
  • In the view of some, a primary reason the Heat reupped Dedmon, 33, at $4.7 million for this season was to be able to aggregate his salary in a trade.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The Heat are not allowed to aggregate salary-cap exceptions in order to match Tucker’s salary.
    Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The film’s debut was strong enough to lift the nationwide weekend aggregate to $4.07 million.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 17 Apr. 2022
  • This was to offset the biggest short-term hit to aggregate demand in U.S. history.
    WSJ, 3 Nov. 2021
  • That means that the modem can aggregate signals of up to three bands, making for a faster connection overall.
    Christian De Looper, BGR, 10 May 2022
  • There are many options for ways to know who's on the ballot, and a lot of sites aggregating quotes that summarize a candidate's stance.
    Amanda Mitchell, Marie Claire, 13 Sep. 2018
  • After the close, September new loans and aggregate financing came in a touch light, which would support such a move.
    Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Its app aggregates streaming rights so users can set alerts across several sports and tune in to live game action in real time.
    Kim Bhasin, Bloomberg.com, 13 Apr. 2023
  • This archive now aggregates more than 283 million streams per month.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The benefits are also aggregated, which means that two benefits in the same month count as two months.
    Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 17 Dec. 2019
  • After all of this research, our Lab pros aggregate and analyze the feedback to share the best hair products for your money.
    Catharine Malzahn, Good Housekeeping, 26 July 2022
  • Just below the mountains, pollutants aggregate from far and wide, brought in by strong winds and yearly monsoons.
    Lou Del Bello, Wired, 27 Feb. 2021
  • She's just started studying why adult manta rays aggregate off of central and north Florida in the spring.
    David Williams, CNN, 17 Mar. 2021
  • These sites work with thousands of retailers and brands, as well as user submissions, to aggregate sales and codes.
    Laura Daily, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Aduhelm is supposed to reduce amyloid plaques, protein pieces that aggregate in clumps between the nerve cells of Alzheimer’s patients.
    Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 8 June 2021
  • One of those purposes is, of course, to collect and aggregate preferences.
    Samuel Goldman, The Week, 13 Jan. 2022
  • The researchers aggregated the results from all of these studies and then began digging through the data.
    Gretchen Reynolds, New York Times, 6 June 2018
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aggregate

3 of 3 noun
  • Tatum and Brown were an aggregate 12 for 17 in the half.
    Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2022
  • But in the aggregate, that's huge for the country as a whole.
    Wired Staff, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2022
  • But in the aggregate, there’s still much work to be done.
    Claire Suddath, Bloomberg.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Oh, okay, all of the top lineups have still been good over the aggregate.
    Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Nov. 2021
  • In the aggregate, the idea of the Clinical Center has worked.
    Beverly Gage, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
  • As for Omoruyi’s presence, that may be done more in the aggregate.
    oregonlive, 6 Apr. 2021
  • It’s part of an attempt to replace the fair in aggregate.
    Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Oct. 2020
  • For the record, América won the nine-months-long series 3-1 on aggregate.
    Paul Newberry, ajc, 25 Dec. 2020
  • In the aggregate, this savings for the company stands to be vast.
    Kara Alaimo, CNN, 13 Aug. 2021
  • But the aggregate used to make Roman concrete was made up of fist-sized pieces of stone or bricks.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 Feb. 2022
  • But keep in mind, those numbers that Netflix shares for the shows that make it onto the Top 10 chart are in the aggregate.
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Crews have since been working to pour foamed glass aggregate into the gap in the roadway.
    Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2023
  • But in the aggregate, the fact that these trends point in the same broad direction should at least be a concern to put on your radar.
    James Brumley, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Put simply, there does appear to be such a thing as too many pot stores, at least in the aggregate.
    Dan Adams, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Dec. 2022
  • His only concern is how this will work in the aggregate.
    Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 May 2018
  • The backyard boasts and an aggregate wall made of boulders in rebar.
    Georgann Yara, azcentral, 31 Oct. 2019
  • But Hofmann makes many choices that, in the aggregate, give us a sharper and more stylish book.
    Christine Smallwood, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
  • There’s something about the aggregate of it that feels special.
    Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2021
  • Well, of course—but only in the particular, not in the aggregate.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Today’s warmer oceans still act in aggregate as sinks for CO2.
    The Economist, 21 Sep. 2019
  • Apple tells me that performance on this year’s model in the aggregate should be the same as last year’s.
    Dieter Bohn, The Verge, 17 July 2019
  • In today’s world, the three banks that have failed so far had assets, in the aggregate, greater than those 25 failures 18 years ago (see chart).
    Robert Barone, Forbes, 6 May 2023
  • But in the aggregate, the loss of that programming could change its brand identity.
    Natalie Jarvey, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2019
  • As a result, in aggregate, the shows end up cheaper for music lovers.
    Dan Kopf, Quartzy, 2 July 2019
  • That marks a shift in the survey's aggregate, which had shown the race virtually tied or with a slight lead for Mr. Ryan for months.
    Joshua Jamerson, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022
  • But in the aggregate, people view the state of the economy as horrendous.
    New York Times, 31 Dec. 2021
  • With mortar that’s only damp enough to form into a ball, the color of the aggregate prevails.
    Washington Post, 7 July 2021
  • For that, the (aggregate) savings rate would have to be negative.
    Mike Sommers, Fortune Europe, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Over on the viewers’ side of the equation, the current aggregate Rotten Tomatoes score there is … 59% (so, again, meh).
    Andy Meek, BGR, 15 Aug. 2022
  • In aggregate, Team Vole believes, a high vole year could make the tundra breathe out carbon.
    Bathsheba Demuth, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2024

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