collective
Example Sentences
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This time, the collective mission is economic survival: save dollars.
From BBC • May 14, 2026
“These private companies are shaping our collective future, and we invite you to be part of their journey — and ours,” the website reads.
From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026
To suggest that we should remove mail access for millions of women because of a few allegedly criminal acts is a disproportionate response that resembles collective punishment more than sound healthcare regulation.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
This is, to put it plainly, the stuff of well-considered emotional rawness, painstaking portraiture of our collective pasts.
From Salon • May 12, 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
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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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