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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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
A government report External link found that the Medicare Advantage plans they reviewed collectively denied 12% of requests for admission to skilled nursing facilities, and 18% of those rejections were appealed.
From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026
Yet even the very largest expected IPOs this year would collectively represent just over 0.1% of the S&P 500’s total market capitalization, according to Deutsche Bank.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 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
If anyone at the time had suggested that this unknown disease in gay men in southern California came from wild chimpanzees in Africa, the medical community would have collectively burst out laughing.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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