collective
Example Sentences
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Scotland's councils are facing a collective budget shortfall of about £530m in 2026-27, a spending watchdog has warned.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
Many unionized workers were locked into collective bargaining agreements that didn’t anticipate the extraordinary rise in inflation and lacked the cost-of-living adjustments that were far more common in the 1970s and 1980s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
Mirer, meanwhile, claims that he has received no NIL compensation from Stanford’s collective or revenue-sharing money from the university since 2024 as a result of the settlement.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
Visitors to All the Rage will move between performances and exhibits throughout the office space, before coming together to watch a final collective performance.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
The sound from the living room was diminished now as if somebody had lowered the collective volume of the voices.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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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