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    He would be leaving soon to spend four weeks in the "bush," where he and dozens of other boys would join an aggregate of elders and learn what it means to be a Xhosa man.  (source)
    aggregate = combination (group)
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    Perhaps the aggregate experience of Time is a constant and thus for our children to establish such vivid impressions of this particular June, we must relinquish our claims upon it.  (source)
    aggregate = combined total
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    But in the aggregate, when you control hundreds of thousands of computers and direct them to do the same thing, that's when the problem starts.  (source)
    aggregate = whole (everything taken together)
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    Rocher's men stood at sharp attention, nobody moving a muscle, although the information they had just received had increased their aggregate blood pressure by a few thousand points.  (source)
    aggregate = combined
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    "Entailments are bad," I was advising him, when I slowly awoke to the fact that I was addressing the entire aggregation.  (source)
    aggregation = collection of people
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    In this latter science it is very usually untrue that the aggregated parts are equal to the whole.  (source)
    aggregated = combined
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    The faces of the others looked like aggregates of interchangeable features, every face oozing to blend into the anonymity of resembling all, and all looking as if they were melting.†  (source)
    aggregates = combinations
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    Veteran regiments in the army were likely to be very small aggregations of men.†  (source)
    aggregations = combinations of different, but related quantities or things
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    This changed the volume ratio of solid to liquid dramatically, which in turn made the aggregate act as a liquid.  (source)
    aggregate = whole (with both were combined)
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    Ang Dorje hailed from Pangboche, an aggregation of stonewalled houses and terraced potato fields clinging to a rugged hillside at 13,000 feet.  (source)
    aggregation = group
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    This aggregated to over thirty thousand possible permutations.†  (source)
    aggregated = combined
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    Matter is gathered into aggregates ranging in size from the smallest atom to the largest collection of matter known to astronomers,†  (source)
    aggregates = combinations
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    Newman expressed his income in a round number which had the magnificent sound that large aggregations of dollars put on when they are translated into francs.†  (source)
    aggregations = combinations of different, but related quantities or things
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