collective
Example Sentences
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Scotland's councils are facing a collective budget shortfall of about £530m in 2026-27, a spending watchdog has warned.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
Together, the bounty of wishes reflect our collective mood in L.A., offering a prismatic snapshot of our hopes, frustrations, anxieties, dreams and desires at this moment in time.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
Many unionized workers were locked into collective bargaining agreements that didn’t anticipate the extraordinary rise in inflation and lacked the cost-of-living adjustments that were far more common in the 1970s and 1980s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
The RFU's women in leadership collective then wrote to the union calling for a change in its policy and to dismiss Smith.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
The shift may, in fact, come as something of a relief, as it moves our collective focus away from a wholly unrealistic goal to one that is within anyone’s reach right now.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Vocabulary lists containing collective
TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I've Been to the Mountaintop" (1968)
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"What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?" Vocabulary from the short story
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