collective
Example Sentences
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“If it takes collective action…it does so at the price of censuring any minority who do not agree with the view adopted.”
"I remember after we got the data down, our collective reaction was 'What the heck is this?'"
From Science Daily
"This really looks like a trade-off, prioritizing what's good for the individual cell to stay alive in a stressful environment, at the expense of what the collective tissue should be doing," Tzouanas says.
From Science Daily
Reflecting that structure, many of the songs are solos, often introspective ballads, with varying, more upbeat collective numbers set mostly at Auggie’s school.
“It is almost certainly the greatest collective act of scientific vandalism in recent American history,” environmental journalist Bill McKibben wrote in The New Yorker in December.
From Salon
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