- past participle of take.
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Taken together, the wage and payroll data point to a jobs market that isn’t running so hot as to raise concerns about the labor market spurring inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 2, 2026
Taken together, they formed the government’s central theory of the case: Whatever happened here was too limited, too incremental, too voluntary to qualify as a Fourth Amendment search.
From Slate • Jun. 29, 2026
Taken together, the outcome of the lawsuits, whether they ultimately settle out of court or end up with jury verdicts against companies, could change the way social platforms operate forever.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
Taken together, these cuts “would shrink the economy by $1 trillion compared with maintaining the 2025 level of R&D,” reckons the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a science and tech think tank.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
Taken individually, none of the twenty-five Norte Chico cities rivaled Sumer’s cities in size, but the totality was bigger than Sumer.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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