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in the aggregate
Idioms and Phrases
Considered as a whole, as in Our profits in the aggregate have been slightly higher . [Late 1700s]Example Sentences
That also left Columbus with a massive hill to climb in the aggregate score in next week’s rematch.
“The direct macroeconomic effects of these layoffs will be localized and small in the aggregate,†says Neale Mahoney, an economics professor at Stanford University, noting that roughly 1.5 million are laid off in a typical month.
Nor would what’s on offer from the major studios and networks, in the aggregate, convince skeptics that the industry is in touch with the common man: the IP-driven “cinematic universe†and other forms of conglomerate-made “cultureâ€; streaming pablum to fold laundry by, whether labeled “casual viewing†or “mid TVâ€; every flavor of luxury, quiet or otherwise, from media magnates to mega-ranchers to Real Housewives and the capitalist origin stories that got them there.
Contrary to how too many in the news media and political class think about politics and society, people do not live or experience “the economy†and their sense of financial and social precarity in the aggregate through statistics.
Yet, no one lives in the aggregate.
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