en bloc
Americanadverb
adverb
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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
"There is a risk that people end up feeling that religious groups, en bloc, are against same-sex couples completely," he added.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2012
When the Appleton collection of Chinese porcelains was purchased en bloc by a well-known house doing business on Fifth Avenue, the celebrated purple hawthorn vase was considered the most precious of all.
From The Unpublishable Memoirs by A. S. W. Rosenbach
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