collective

Example Sentences

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Analysts are looking for collective S&P 500 company profits to rise 14% over the first quarter and nearly 19% for the year, paced by megacap tech giants and the country’s biggest banks.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

Mazibuko joined Ladysmith Black Mambazo in 1969 and the collective went on to win five Grammy awards and feature on Paul Simon's acclaimed 1986 Graceland album.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026

Black said his faith helps him make sense of the violence he witnessed and endured — not simply as the product of individual malice, but as something sustained by collective moral failure.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

Edison’s contribution was an innovation that made electric light much more practical and commercially viable, but it was also part of a larger process of collective scientific research.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

While French soldiers engaged in “acts of collective indiscipline,” as their commanders preferred to say, the Russian army was collapsing and Russia itself was in turmoil.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman