en bloc
Example Sentences
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When there are, they’re removed en bloc, field-jacketed in plaster and taken back to the museum for definitive uncovering.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2017
“In a piecemeal way we’ve been doing that for years, but now we can take it en bloc and I don’t mind telling you we’re rather excited.”
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 26, 2015
The en bloc type, they can last hours.
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2015
Those new union members should, however, be encouraged to join individually, and not en bloc, as has been claimed.
From The Guardian ● May 16, 2013
All this forms an ensemble which the eye does not analyse, but judges en bloc by instinct, without considering the elements separately, and, above all, without being able to give reasons for its judgment.
From Mentally Defective Children by Alfred Binet
