How to Use aggregation in a Sentence

aggregation

noun
  • Yes, sites like Longform and Longreads engage in what may be called aggregation.
    Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2014
  • Humpbacks can now stay in the Antarctic much later in the season and follow the krill moving inshore in large aggregations.
    National Geographic, 5 Apr. 2016
  • This is because the aggregation process helps wash out a lot of random misperception, confirmation bias, and the like.
    Tom Nichols, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2017
  • This aggregation of harvestmen helps fend off potential predators.
    Allison Bond, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2010
  • In compiling the 2019 Year in Search, Google looked at the aggregation of trillions of search queries over the course of the year.
    Marcy De Luna, Houston Chronicle, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Yet much of the art on the line is based on nature and contrast with this aggregation of steel and glass.
    Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The Drudge Report, which has become known more for its aggregation and flashy headlines than for breaking big stories, had thrown the media into full-on pandemonium.
    Sydney Ember, New York Times, 19 July 2016
  • What value will those sites have when A.I. can do the aggregation for us?
    Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The aggregation of mass during its growth came via large impacts and oceans of molten rock.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2019
  • That score is an abysmal 26% on the review aggregation site.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 13 Dec. 2021
  • In a number of instances, this can mean cheaper costs for the customers who are part of the aggregation.
    Jennie Key, Cincinnati.com, 25 Oct. 2017
  • The young sharks gather in the aggregation spots for several years feasting on stingrays and small fish on the seafloor.
    oregonlive, 4 June 2023
  • When a coin is dropped into an aggregation of the insects, the group re-forms slowly around the object.
    Christine Hauser, The Seattle Times, 30 Aug. 2017
  • In fact, a total of five episodes out of nine now have perfect scores on the review aggregation site as of the time of this writing.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Customers do have the option to opt-out of the aggregation program.
    John Benson, cleveland, 31 Mar. 2021
  • As for the critics’ score on the review aggregation site, that stands at just 65 percent.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 28 Feb. 2022
  • In fact, users were three times more likely to share any kind of content from the reshare aggregation units, the researcher said.
    New York Times, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Adults who drank the normal sugar drink had no changes in platelet aggregation.
    Caroline Hopkins, NBC News, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The film has a 58% score on the review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes.
    Frank Pallotta, CNN, 3 Oct. 2021
  • Season One of The Orville has a god-awful 31% critics’ score on the review aggregation site.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Following at least one of the hunts, large aggregations of sharks disappeared from the area.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 18 June 2024
  • For the last month on the betting aggregation site, the race has been between Biden and Sanders, with the duo switching positions often.
    Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 15 Jan. 2020
  • The building was packed full of art —a strange aggregation of periods, mediums, and styles.
    Amanda Chemeche, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 June 2023
  • The larger lesson is that aggregation can help us avoid the trap of narrow framing.
    Shlomo Benartzi, WSJ, 11 June 2017
  • Vos says that this aggregation function means that the US peak appears to be more stretched out—like a table top, rather than a mountain top.
    Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 22 Apr. 2020
  • The original plan was for the researchers to cruise through the Ewing Bank aggregation spot in early July around a full moon.
    Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Fargo added that the new gas aggregation contract is good for only two years.
    Thomas Jewell, cleveland.com, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Not that any of them have been exactly skewered on the review aggregation site, mind you.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 5 July 2022
  • There were also no aggregation restrictions, so any team could combine two or more smaller contracts to acquire a player with a bigger salary via trade.
    Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Adding to their difficulties are new CBA rules that prohibit salary aggregation and tightly restrict incoming salary for teams near the second apron.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 13 Dec. 2024

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