as in total
a complete amount of something
numerous episodes of pilferage, taken in the aggregate, can really add up to a significant sum
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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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as in collective
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Recent Examples of aggregate
Tristan Bove, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2026
Less than three minutes later, with Los Blancos all at sea, Luis Díaz struck a sublime effort – slightly deflected off Madrid defender Éder Militão – into the far corner of the net to give Bayern the lead on aggregate.
—Ben Church, CNN Money, 16 Apr. 2026
Max Tani, semafor.com, 14 Apr. 2026
Markets opened down nearly 1% across the indices on Monday, but news-aggregating accounts online and on social media picked up on a report by New York Post pentagon reporter Caitlin Doornbos.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2026
AJC.com, 23 Apr. 2026
In European competition, Lyonnes most recently beat Wolfsburg Women, 4-1 on aggregate, in the Champions League quarterfinals.
—Braidon Nourse, Denver Post, 18 Apr. 2026
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Noun
Around the world, most coal plants were already running at or near full capacity, meaning commitments to ramp up production will lead to relatively small increases in aggregate.
—Tristan Bove, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2026
Less than three minutes later, with Los Blancos all at sea, Luis Díaz struck a sublime effort – slightly deflected off Madrid defender Éder Militão – into the far corner of the net to give Bayern the lead on aggregate.
—Ben Church, CNN Money, 16 Apr. 2026
Verb
The media news site Mediaite built One Sheet to aggregate the growing list of media newsletters.
—Max Tani, semafor.com, 14 Apr. 2026
Markets opened down nearly 1% across the indices on Monday, but news-aggregating accounts online and on social media picked up on a report by New York Post pentagon reporter Caitlin Doornbos.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2026
Adjective
The Winner may be required to complete and submit an IRS Form W-9 with the winner’s full Social Security Number or the equivalent for receipt of any prize(s) valued at $600 or more or for any prizes awarded by the Sponsor in a calendar year with an aggregate value of $600 or more.
—AJC.com, 23 Apr. 2026
In European competition, Lyonnes most recently beat Wolfsburg Women, 4-1 on aggregate, in the Champions League quarterfinals.
—Braidon Nourse, Denver Post, 18 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aggregate
Noun
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Mehdi Bostanchi owns a ventilation and air conditioning factory, and a second producing household fans, with a total of more than 1,130 employees.—
Amir-Hussein Radjy,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2026
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As part of his plea agreements, Jones agreed to give up a total of $73,000 and, at sentencing, could be ordered to pay additional sums as restitution.—
Michael R. Sisak,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Apr. 2026
Verb
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But his days in the City of Brotherly Love are almost certainly numbered.—
Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
24 Apr. 2026
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The largest bird in North America, the condor, numbered fewer than two dozen in the wild in the 1980s.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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More willing to put the collective goal of winning a title above all else.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
1 May 2026
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The Seahawks leaned on a collective pass rush rather than one dominant star, finishing the season as one of the league’s more effective defensive fronts.—
Jackson Thompson OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
30 Apr. 2026
Noun
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His leadership of Amazon’s cloud business has coincided with the AI boom and the remarkable scramble among cloud providers, including Microsoft, Google, and Oracle, to spend eye-popping sums building data centers and other AI infrastructure.—
Alexei Oreskovic,
Fortune,
29 Apr. 2026
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Paying upfront huge sums of money for an A-lister to do a show or movie at a streamer, that looks like success regardless of whether anybody showed up to actually watch it, but that doesn’t make sense in terms of how success has traditionally been understood.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Take twenty separate pinches of salt, weigh each one, and average them to determine the size of your personal pinch.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
26 Apr. 2026
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Weekday lunch waits these days seem to average about 45 minutes.—
Bill Addison,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The speed and totality with which this happened shocked everyone except Mother, who said with pride that this aggression was what being a man meant.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Apr. 2026
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Paradoxically, his quest for totality entailed a diminishment—of size, of scale, of material.—
Ara H. Merjian,
ARTnews.com,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Aggregate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aggregate. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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