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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Google, Amazon and Meta collectively plan to pour some $650bn into the technology this year.
From BBC • 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
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
He spoke eloquently of what it meant to form a union and have it witnessed by a caring community, these people who collectively knew every dimension of Barack and every dimension of me.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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