collectively

Example Sentences

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Finance 101 teaches us that an efficient market is forward-looking, reflecting at any given time what investors collectively expect future returns to be.

From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026

“It is the first instance that folks can point to showing that collectively we don’t have to organize our healthcare system this way.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

The club will hope he can rebuild a side that fights collectively rather than individually, and to manage some of football's biggest personalities, several of whom have faced criticism this season for acting egotistically.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

“The U.S. One China policy, as our cross-strait policies are collectively known, is based on the Taiwan Relations Act, the three U.S.-PRC Joint Communiques and the Six Assurances to Taiwan,” the official said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2026

Believe that, too, for driver ants are possessed, collectively, of the size and influence of a Biblical plague.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver