en bloc
Americanadverb
adverb
Example Sentences
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“They were just informing me as to what they were going to do, as members do all the time. That they did it en bloc made it very, very important.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2019
“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
Then there are en bloc blackouts, in which memory is totally disabled.
From The Guardian • Jun. 13, 2015
Courage goes in zones, and because the North has generally proved harder the South must not be indicted en bloc.
From A Novelist on Novels by George, Walter Lionel
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