collective behavior
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“When it comes to our collective behavior, it seems like we have lost any sense of public conversation about the moral good,” she said.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 5, 2024
"We have shown that mucus, unlike liquids of similar consistency, enhances the collective behavior."
From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2023
Their findings provide insights into general mechanisms of collective behavior.
From Science Daily • Oct. 6, 2023
Characteristics "emerge" from the collective behavior of the whole system, not from the behavior of its individual components.
From Salon • Sep. 16, 2023
It is in our collective behavior that we are most mysterious.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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