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aggregate

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verb

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
Quinn has proposed playing even more often, twice per season, home and away, with aggregate scores followed by a penalty shootout if necessary and a trophy for the annual champion. Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025 Whereas the value of all goods and services produced is equal to the gross domestic product (GDP), the gap between the aggregate spending (C+I+G) and GDP is by definition equal to the difference between exports and imports. Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025
Verb
According to the company, this improves agility in responding to market fluctuations, while its on-demand production platform aggregates orders and aligns manufacturing with actual demand to reduce overproduction and waste, and allow for smaller, more frequent collections. Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 7 Aug. 2025 But with billions of AI prompts taxing GPUs every year, even those small individual impacts can lead to significant environmental effects in aggregate. Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 25 July 2025
Adjective
Meanwhile, aggregating the GPU ecosystem into one platform could more significantly highlight the price disparity between the options and drive customers towards the cheaper neoclouds. Rachyl Jones, semafor.com, 19 Aug. 2025 Other established, mainstream outlets ended up aggregating Entin’s stuff. Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for aggregate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for aggregate
Noun
  • New Mexico’s defense has given up an average of 419 yards per game in 2025, a total of 95 yards more than the 324 UCLA’s offense has averaged.
    Data Skrive, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The Cultural, Artistic and Musical Programming Advisory Council received a total of 48 applications from qualified groups for the 2026 budget cycle, according to the three-year awards report.
    Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Five of them will be white balls numbered from 1 to 69, and one red Powerball numbered from 1 to 26.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Thousands of Thais on Thursday watched as flight tracking data showed Thaksin’s plane, a Bombardier Global 7500 numbered T7GTS, flying toward Singapore before turning west and circling several times.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The screams, the reason everyone assembles, when the screams come, after a few collective inhales and exhales and a moment to gather one’s thoughts, the screams come like long guttural howls.
    Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Six major systems, the HQ-11, HQ-20, HQ-22A, HQ-9C, HQ-19, and HQ-29, made their collective appearance, highlighting Beijing’s push to close the gap with US and Russian missile defense capabilities.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • That value is ironically and necessarily bound up with independence from government control, even as its realization depends on receiving enormous sums of government money.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Mark Zuckerberg has invested large sums of money into Meta.
    John Tufts, IndyStar, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Valkyries also lead the league in home attendance and are the lone team to average more than 18,000 fans per home game, according to Across the Timeline.
    Ben Pickman, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Closer to average in center field.
    LaMond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Unfortunately, North America will miss live views of the eclipse due to not being in the path of totality.
    Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Even in the Midwest, totality takes place close to the moonset, with only those west of Kansas seeing totality higher in the sky.
    Jamie Carter, Space.com, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Aggregate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aggregate. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.

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