collective

Example Sentences

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The city is a fitting venue: it was here, 40 years ago, that this unique form of collective expression first captured global attention.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

Now is the time to ‘end the economic war on Cuba,’ say Cuban Americans for Cuba, an emerging collective that joined the recent convoy to Havana.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

Mr. O’Connor’s involving novel, which continues into the 1970s, is about the inadequacy of the psychoanalytic practice to confront the collective psychosis of 20th-century history.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

Travolta’s perspective on life and death seems collective, almost optimistic, as if dying is merely a long-haul journey between this existence and the next, with everyone he’s loved and lost waiting there with open arms.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026

The general public’s collective denial is fairly easy to forgive—if not excuse—for all the reasons discussed in chapter 5.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander