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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Reverence and co-investors will collectively take a majority stake in the Minneapolis-based firm, in a deal valuing it at about $1.8 billion, people familiar with the matter said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2026
The organism that is a firm has collections of workers who have process knowledge that is held collectively across the whole workforce and its supply chain.
From Salon • Jun. 22, 2026
"I hope an era will come when people will collectively see high-quality, high-end natto as worth shelling out their money on."
From Barron's • Jun. 22, 2026
The trillions of microbes that live in the human digestive tract, collectively known as the gut microbiome, may influence mood, behavior, and mental health through a variety of biological pathways.
From Science Daily • Jun. 17, 2026
This is why people began collectively to imagine the existence of limited liability companies.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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