collective
Example Sentences
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The broad audience reach and the nightly airing of these shows have ensured that the jokes create a broad interpretive community that translates comedic barbs into collective consciousness.
From Salon • May 19, 2026
"We know they have collective experience. We have a little less," said Bourdon Sansus this week.
From BBC • May 16, 2026
It must become a philosophy that corrodes collective faith, collective beliefs, and becomes excessively individualistic.
From Slate • May 16, 2026
Human life at its most fundamental, he argues, is about “the use of collective rituals to build group identity”—a set of practices from which religion emerged.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
Although we’ve been instructed to be on the lookout for items that may benefit the greater good of the collective, I’ve been more interested in a wider variety of things.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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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