collective

Example Sentences

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Over the last decade-plus, the art collective has grown beyond its anything-goes, punk-meets-psychedelic roots into an organization with full-scale, maximalist installations in its hometown, Denver, Las Vegas, Houston and the Dallas suburbs.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 9, 2026

It was a rare, unexplained, glitch in a system that blares out warnings of incoming attacks multiple times a day through loudspeaker announcements on the street and metro, and the collective ping of phone notifications.

From Barron's • Jul. 9, 2026

Although it behaves like a single particle, this quasiparticle actually arises from the collective motion of the impurity and the particles around it.

From Science Daily • Jul. 9, 2026

Keri Hulme shapes her novel out of all three of their voices, a kind of collective poetry of Maori and Celtic mythology.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 6, 2026

Almost immediately, black elites recognized the opportunity for the individual and collective advancement of Negroes who could present themselves favorably to whites.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander