Definition of aggregatenext
as in to number
to have a total of over time, her petty thefts aggregated a significant shortfall in the company's books

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aggregate

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adjective

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Recent Examples of aggregate
Noun
With Vox’s titles now joining PMC’s preexisting portfolio, Penske has formed the new subsidiary PMX, officially becoming the largest publisher in digital media with 25 titles in the aggregate. Rolling Stone, 18 June 2026 Vox’s publishing properties Eater; The Verge; Pop Sugar; SB Nation; The Dodo; Punch, and Thrillist also will be part of PMX, bringing the total number of titles under the division to more than 25 in aggregate. Wwd Staff, Footwear News, 18 June 2026
Verb
And local websites, like Charlotte On The Cheap and the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority’s website aggregate free or low-cost events going on around the city. Charlotte Observer, 23 July 2026 Van Noort and her team decided to take a closer look at how these whale mothers conserve energy by filming them and their calves using drones in the bay of Head of the Bight in South Australia, where southern right whales aggregate and give birth. Gennaro Tomma, Scientific American, 22 July 2026
Adjective
On one hand, the aggregate data shows that more than half of GLP-1 users (65 percent), regardless of gender, bracket multiple sizes, higher than the 30 percent of general consumers who do, according to a separate and earlier ReturnPro study. Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 24 July 2026 Piscatella noted that aggregate spending on physical video games in the US was actually up 4 percent year-to-date, compared to the year before. Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 23 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for aggregate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for aggregate
Noun
  • Bertha is expected to produce total rainfall amounts of 1 to 4 inches with isolated higher totals to 6 inches through Thursday along the central Gulf Coast from western Florida through southern Louisiana.
    MIAMI HERALD HURRICANE BOT, Miami Herald, 22 July 2026
  • Counting signatures on a separate support letter written by non-STEM faculty, a total of about 3,300 professors are calling for a reinstatement of standardized testing.
    Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 22 July 2026
Verb
  • By September 1 the total number of combatants numbered between 10,000 and 20,000.
    Elijah TanAll, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026
  • Haiti’s security forces have never numbered 30,000, even when the country had an active military, a senior State Department official, Michael Kozak, added at the hearing.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 27 July 2026
Adjective
  • Like many of his fellow countrymen, Buji was inspired by the thought that this collective crossing could somehow unlock his dream of reaching Spain and starting a new life in Europe.
    ABC News, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Other team-period notes With the second team in the same period, running back Brashard Smith caught a quick pass from Justin Fields and juked a defender, triggering a collective gasp from the crowd.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 31 July 2026
Noun
  • Whether those sums are realistic without the arrival of external expertise is uncertain.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 31 July 2026
  • The significance lies less in the sum stolen than in the nature of the failure.
    Susie Violet Ward, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Verb
  • Headquarters jobs should average more than $140,000 per year.
    John Marks, Charlotte Observer, 29 July 2026
  • For an investor weighing a bottom-tier ESG rating against a valuation near $2 trillion, the lesson is not to average the letter grade against the stock price.
    Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
Noun
  • While North America misses totality, a partial eclipse will be visible across vast regions, including parts of the US and Canada.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Given the totality of those metrics, the United States still has work to do.
    Dewardric L. McNeal, CNBC, 2 Aug. 2026

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“Aggregate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aggregate. Accessed 4 Aug. 2026.

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