collective
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The alleged violations of the convention "are a stain on our collective conscience and it would be irresponsible to pretend that it is not our business," Jallow said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
Since the days of the peach basket, teams have preached sharing and teamwork, a collective striving to be greater than the sum of its parts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
When particles with intermediate momenta emerge from this plasma, they can inherit collective motion from the quarks that make them up.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
Wild Up, itself, is a uniquely egalitarian collective, a chamber orchestra of composers and soloists, although one that nonetheless requires traditional leadership of its visionary founder, conductor Christopher Rountree.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
The human collective knows far more today than did the ancient bands.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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Its officers, who wear civilian clothes, have a network of undercover agents and informants dedicated to monitoring and infiltrating dissident movements and independent groups such as art collectives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
These might include karaoke nights, themed bingo happy hours, and raves, often thrown with well-respected collectives.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
Carter also touted the Big Ten’s ability to organize name, image and likeness deals for athletes using NIL collectives.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 7, 2026
Jazz haunts with debts owed to its creators, and has a knack for revivals, collectives, new venues in the old forms, and stalwart clubs revivified by benefactors and grant funding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2026
The number of small farms merged into collectives was a number about equal to the current population of Texas.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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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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