collectively
Americanadverb
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as a whole group rather than as individual persons or things.
There have been a number of different polls released in the last two weeks, and collectively they give us an accurate picture of public opinion.
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according to collectivism, a system in which economic control, especially of the means of production, is shared or centralized.
As one of the reforms, we developed agricultural production cooperatives in which almost 100% of the land is farmed collectively.
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But he said there was "a real sense of collectively wanting to catch up" and avoid anyone being left behind on the road to net zero.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
“But it was true bravery the Dakota exhibited in giving this to us. Where would we be if we could collectively acknowledge the harm we’ve done?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
"We must honestly admit that collectively, we are not yet on track as needed," Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said Friday ahead of the formal UN negotiations known as COP17.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
But as service requests from large customers tripled to 18,000 megawatts, the company started to study potential projects in clusters to see how they would collectively affect the grid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
The lodgers rose up collectively and murmured something in their beards.
From "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka
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