collectivism

Example Sentences

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What’s being asked for is competitive balance, and while it sounds nice, that’s an ambition that requires a healthy amount of collectivism and sacrifice, and leads to my last point here:

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

Within these communities exists an informal collectivism, an ebb and flow of residents, of families, of neighbors coming together at farmer’s markets, in city parks and common spaces, in a tacit recognition of shared values.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025

"In societies that value collectivism, such as in Iceland and Japan, these baths are not mere places for relaxation but also for building social connections," says Jabe Brown of Melbourne Functional Medicine.

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2023

If the references to race and class feel ritualistic, it’s because the movie largely centers on one woman, a focus that’s profoundly at odds with the political radicalism of the Jane’s collectivism.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2022

But the word collectivism, she assured them, wouldn't frighten her, she was a collectivist, a socialist, as her husband had always been.

From The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)