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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In these extreme conditions, electrons behave collectively and enter a highly correlated quantum state.
From Science Daily • Jun. 19, 2026
Those apps were collectively downloaded more than 700 million times and generated $117 million in revenue, app analytics firm AppMagic found in the investigation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 14, 2026
We understand that the two sales leaders who departed during the fiscal third quarter collectively oversaw about 40% of bookings, which explains the execution risk given the scale of the business they managed.
From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026
The corporation said it had collectively decided, along with Davies and Bad Wolf, not to go ahead with the planned Christmas episode.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
But fiction has enabled us not merely to imagine things, but to do so collectively.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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