collective
Example Sentences
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This enables colleagues to speak in the collective, which comes in handy when something goes wrong.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
The second speaks to the lack of choice we have as workers to take that money and invest it in the stock market — that’s done for the collective benefit.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026
They’re looking for an artistic lifeline, a way of connecting themselves and their audience with a tradition that extends our collective horizon and encourages us to take a longer view.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026
Sports bettors losing money shouldn’t be surprising—where else would you expect sportsbook profits to come from?—but the manner of our collective losses seems both sleazy and unsustainable.
From Slate • Apr. 28, 2026
By collective stewardship of the land and a clan-village system of democracy it avoided giving all the political control and decision-making to a single group.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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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