How to Use disaggregate in a Sentence

disaggregate

verb
  • In this system, members of a pool that tests positive do not have to be re-tested because lab workers can disaggregate the samples in the pool to find the positive person or people.
    Laura Krantz, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Jan. 2021
  • The extent of the second problem became especially clear after the passage of No Child Left Behind, a 2002 federal law that forced states to disaggregate data by race.
    Naomi Schaefer Riley, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2018
  • Where a player is selected in the draft is based on numerous factors that are difficult, if not impossible, to disaggregate.
    Michael McCann, SI.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • One potential outcome should be obvious: break up and disaggregate Big Food into smaller constituents that would have to compete for harder customers.
    Errol Schweizer, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
  • The paper excluded a number of larger Seattle businesses from its analysis, for one, and could not cleanly disaggregate whether the changes in the structure of the labor market were due to the booming local economy or to the minimum-wage hike.
    Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 26 June 2017
  • Rather, aggregating over the whole population the authors seem to be arguing that there need not be differential fitness of genotypes, rather, genotypes can disaggregate and sort themselves over space.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 22 Mar. 2011
  • The family itself, robbed of its economic functions, will continue to disaggregate.
    Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 6 Oct. 2017
  • There is a federal mandate to disaggregate data for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders.
    Deidre McPhillips, CNN, 16 June 2022
  • Third, to rebuild now as well as to prepare for future emergencies, countries need to invest in the ability of national statistics offices to collect, disaggregate, and analyze data.
    Melinda Gates, STAT, 30 July 2020
  • While those numbers don't disaggregate hate crimes against Asian American women, findings from community groups are noteworthy.
    Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 15 Mar. 2022
  • With our vast intra-racial socio-economic inequality, Harvard must disaggregate its racial data—as suggested in the Supreme Court’s majority opinion—to further look at the social trends and patterns that are plaguing its admissions process.
    Time, 18 July 2023
  • Indeed, wherever possible, countries should disaggregate data by these factors and more.
    Melinda Gates, STAT, 30 July 2020
  • Dawes meant both to disaggregate Indian land and to desegregate it, bringing in farmers who would model civilized agrarianism for their Indian neighbors.
    Philip Deloria, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
  • She and other legislators should require themselves to disaggregate such proposals into digestible (or otherwise) morsels.
    WSJ, 20 Aug. 2018
  • Some buildings have systems where each workstation has controls for its own temperature and airflow, and systems that disaggregate ventilation from temperature control.
    Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2020
  • But the studies that researchers analyzed used varying definitions of infertility and data that was disaggregated differently, or not at all.
    Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 3 Apr. 2023

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