collective

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“In the absence of ethnicity, religion or political ideologies, social networks can divide, and new group boundaries can emerge, leading to collective violence,” the authors write.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026

The collective term for all microorganisms -- including bacteria, viruses and fungi -- that live in and on the body.

From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2026

Since the 1979 revolution which established the Islamic republic, such imagery has served as a medium to reflect ideology and collective memory.

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

Videos of runway shows put on by the art-fashion collective Women’s History Museum reveal a series of unique venues—an abandoned Wall Street bank, an East Village church, a dying shopping mall in Chinatown.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

Your Atman will fly from the web of human desire and join the collective consciousness—the infinite soul that suffuses the universe, at once everywhere and nowhere at the same time.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife