aggregation

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aggregation

noun accumulation, adhesion, agglomeration, aggregate, amassment, body, combination, company, compilation, composite, concentration, conglomeration, congregation, consolidation, corpus, cumulation, force, gathering, group, hoard, incorporation, mass, multitude, organization, totality

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The ground was rolling and tree-dotted and covered with grazing animals, alone, in pairs and in herds--a motley aggregation of the modern and extinct herbivore of the world.

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Patsy Horan and two of his satellites testified to a most colossal aggregation of perjuries.

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And now, so that there shall be no anticlimax in this story of telephone development, we must turn the spot-light upon that immense aggregation of workshops in which have been made three-fifths of the telephone apparatus of the world--the Western Electric.

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Veteran regiments in the army were likely to be very small aggregations of men.

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The state is "a community of well-being in families and aggregations of families for the sake of a perfect and self-sufficing life.

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You are interested in advancing the interests of the aggregations of capital you serve.

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As wage slaves, toiling early and late, and living abstemiously, we could not save in threescore years--nor in twenty times threescore years--a sum of money sufficient successfully to cope with the great aggregations of massed capital which now exist.