in the aggregate

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1. Considered as a whole, as in Our profits in the aggregate have been slightly higher. [Late 1700s]

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in the aggregate

One of them is that to get into the S&P 500, a company has to have been profitable in its most recent quarter, as well as over the past year in the aggregate.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026

“Surveys suggest that employment growth is now stalling in the aggregate, but we see little evidence of a layoff cycle, for now,” Vistesen said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

Small-business profits, in the aggregate, are still in the black, but growth recently turned negative for the first time in a year and a half, Bowley said, citing Bank of America’s spending data.

From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025

I have an optimistic view that human beings will find a way to leverage these profound technologies for good in the aggregate, such as what happened with nuclear.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2025

In the Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1875, there are twenty-one sub-bands of Dakotas enumerated, numbering, in the aggregate, 53,044.

From Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians by Jackson, W. H.