collective

Example Sentences

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S&P 500’s forward multiple compressed 17%; earnings forecasts improved 3 percentage points, projecting a 19% collective advance.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Starbucks said the program announced Thursday “will be subject to collective bargaining as required by federal law” at the roughly 5% of U.S. stores that have unionized.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 2, 2026

Not that the Arsenal star will mind a dip in personal output if it means a win for the collective, bringing a league title or European glory to north London.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Although she is the lyricist and frontperson of the collective, Ayewa maintains that Irreversible Entanglements is a true collective.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

But there is no collective term for all the different positions which have in common a recognition that some forms of knowledge of nature are more successful than others, and that consequently knowledge can progress.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton