en bloc
Americanadverb
adverb
Example Sentences
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When there are, they’re removed en bloc, field-jacketed in plaster and taken back to the museum for definitive uncovering.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2017
“In a piecemeal way we’ve been doing that for years, but now we can take it en bloc and I don’t mind telling you we’re rather excited.”
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 26, 2015
The en bloc type, they can last hours.
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2015
Those new union members should, however, be encouraged to join individually, and not en bloc, as has been claimed.
From The Guardian ● May 16, 2013
Often have we seen a mining congregation captured en bloc when some brother miner, speaking in native doric from the wagon at a camp meeting, has taken them "doon the pit," or "in bye."
From The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching by Jackson, J. Dodd (James Dodd)
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