in the aggregate

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: considered as a whole : collectively
Dividends for the year amounted in the aggregate to 25 million dollars.

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And the beauty of this country is that every person has the power—small in isolation but much greater in the aggregate—to make change. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 3 July 2026 His set doesn’t build enough to be rewarding in the aggregate, and his individual riffs keep stopping short of real wisdom. — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 30 June 2026

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