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.
  • 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
  • So still not nailed down, just an aggregate agreement.
    CBS News, 17 May 2026
  • If aggregate demand does not keep up, prices will fall—or at least not rise as fast.
    The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
  • So, still not nailed down, just an aggregate agreement?
    CBS News, 17 May 2026
  • In aggregate, those groups spent a small fortune.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • The Avalanche took the last three games by an aggregate 14-7.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2022
  • So far, at least, there is little sign of this surge in aggregate statistics.
    John Cassidy, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • He was hooked at half-time with Chelsea 7-2 behind on aggregate.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 26 May 2026
  • 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
  • But taken in aggregate, this is the biggest book marketplace in the world.
    Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The past method only allowed for agencies to provide an aggregate count.
    Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The hedge is working against that aggregate drawdown, not just covering one spread.
    Nishant Pant, CNBC, 9 June 2026
  • Norton aced every test, so its aggregate lab score is a perfect 10.
    Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 25 June 2026
  • That means CFOs need more than aggregate cloud reports.
    Kiran Palla, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • Cached, synchronous writes aggregate then trickle out from the controller's cache to disk.
    Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 16 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • Boston outscored Philly by an aggregate 62 points in the series.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2023
  • But because Goofus hates hefeweizens, the aggregate rating gets dragged down.
    Matt Koesters, The Enquirer, 16 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • The scores were level on aggregate and extra-time seemed a certainty with less than five minutes left on the clock.
    Ben Church, CNN Money, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Yet for all the talk about tariffs, the aggregate economic effect has been modest.
    David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 23 July 2019
  • The multiple stimulus bills did more than fill the gap in aggregate demand.
    Phil Gramm and Mike Solon, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Folks are also invited to add a star rating from one to five that will be factored into the book's aggregate grade.
    Stephanie Mlot, PCMAG, 21 Sep. 2022
  • So local news in aggregate reaches over a million people every night.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 31 Jan. 2026

aggregate

2 of 3 verb
  • The website aggregates content from many other sites.
  • The worksites are like prison yards in that these bodies aggregate by race.
    Melissa Chadburn, Longreads, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Someone is going to aggregate that long tail of gig work, right?
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 3 Mar. 2026
  • This way, the bills land aggregated.
    Udam Dewaraja, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • How to aggregate and use data is one of the great challenges of the digital age.
    John Warner, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2018
  • In addition to the live events, streams of the events have aggregated millions of views.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 23 Jan. 2024
  • These census blocks can then be aggregated by both the current and proposed maps.
    Ramon Padilla, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
  • This archive now aggregates more than 283 million streams per month.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 23 Jan. 2024
  • That gave the film a 64% share of the nationwide weekend aggregate.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 16 Oct. 2022
  • There’s a lot of stuff in the ocean, and marine debris tends to aggregate in the same places as does the whale sharks’ primary prey.
    JSTOR Daily, 24 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Fox had never used the term in real life either, even though her comments have, in fact, been aggregated many times.
    Ralphie Aversa, USA Today, 28 Nov. 2025
  • And as gas prices go up, consumers’ disposable income goes down — and thus, so does aggregate spending.
    Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The benefits are also aggregated, which means that two benefits in the same month count as two months.
    Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 17 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • Other users of the platform can then re-format and aggregate this content for new programming and long-form playlists.
    Marcus Lim, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025
  • One of those purposes is, of course, to collect and aggregate preferences.
    Samuel Goldman, The Week, 13 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • But aggregate consumer spending masks schisms below the surface.
    Sarah Min, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • In the mid-90s, the courts started aggregating to itself more and more powers.
    Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 6 Aug. 2023
  • There are a lot of free and cheap options that others have aggregated—like Molly White’s from above.
    James Folta, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025
  • When conditions are wetter, the groups aggregate together on large grassy areas, known as glades.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Resilient neighborhoods aggregate up to the next layer in the model – the resilient town.
    Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Our local news reaches and aggregated over a million people.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 31 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • After that the data is aggregated to record the number of website hits and visitors.
    Ian Paul, PCWorld, 17 Oct. 2018
  • 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

aggregate

3 of 3 noun
  • But in the aggregate, that's huge for the country as a whole.
    Wired Staff, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Oh, okay, all of the top lineups have still been good over the aggregate.
    Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Nov. 2021
  • On the field, the Bucs will have to replace them in the aggregate.
    Rick Stroud, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Each is a discovery in their own right, let alone in the aggregate.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 13 Feb. 2026
  • But in the aggregate, Marissa is a bit fuzzy.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 6 Nov. 2025
  • As for Omoruyi’s presence, that may be done more in the aggregate.
    oregonlive, 6 Apr. 2021
  • The problem is in the aggregate.
    Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 21 Feb. 2026
  • The answer, in aggregate, is no.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • There’s something about the aggregate of it that feels special.
    Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2021
  • Crews have since been working to pour foamed glass aggregate into the gap in the roadway.
    Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2023
  • Having a two-year aggregate for record might lead to two years of tanking instead of one.
    Zach Harper, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2026
  • As a result, in aggregate, the shows end up cheaper for music lovers.
    Dan Kopf, Quartzy, 2 July 2019
  • The backyard boasts and an aggregate wall made of boulders in rebar.
    Georgann Yara, azcentral, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Roethling recommends adding soil aggregates the size of a pea to aid in drainage.
    Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 26 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • For that, the (aggregate) savings rate would have to be negative.
    Mike Sommers, Fortune Europe, 1 Feb. 2024
  • In aggregate, women’s work is less volatile in normal times than men’s, and less prone to big cyclical changes.
    Cassie Werber, Quartz at Work, 15 Apr. 2020
  • In my lifetime there have been three bear markets in which the value of shares in aggregate has fallen by half.
    The Economist, 21 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • The app aggregates and curates options for watching live sports and is free to consumers.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • But in the aggregate, the loss of that programming could change its brand identity.
    Natalie Jarvey, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • On the aggregate, the Celtics have made Maxey shoot poorly over the first two games.
    Tony Jones, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2026
  • In the aggregate, music is making a lot of money from streaming.
    Garrett Levin, Billboard, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Of course not everybody was, but in the aggregate, people were better off.
    Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • The summary will tie what was said to who said it in some cases or provide an aggregate of the topic.
    Washington Post, 11 May 2022

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