collective
Example Sentences
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Perry’s most recent feature, a documentary called “Videoheaven,” is a delightfully obsessive film essay about the role that video stores once played in our collective consciousness.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026
“In the absence of ethnicity, religion or political ideologies, social networks can divide, and new group boundaries can emerge, leading to collective violence,” the authors write.
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026
"By yielding to pressure, it weakens collective action and renounces its potential leading role," she told AFP.
From Barron's • Apr. 23, 2026
The collective term for all microorganisms -- including bacteria, viruses and fungi -- that live in and on the body.
From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2026
When the military man left for a year, the whole family relaxed in a collective, yet unvoiced sigh.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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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