Sentence examples for a singular collective from inspiring English sources

But, as we all know, "the media" is now also a singular collective noun that's used to refer to the press -- the purveyors of news that's fit to print, broadcast and now even blog about (with "fit" encompassing a wide range of interpretation).

(One of the best cinema experiences I have ever had came watching Paranormal Activity 2, which is obviously awful, but shitting your pants at a jump-scare in the middle of a room full of similarly tense viewers makes for a singular collective watching experience that Netflix could never rival).

(One of the best movie experiences I have ever had was while watching Paranormal Activity 2, which is obviously awful, but shitting your pants at a jump-scare in the middle of a room full of similarly tense viewers makes for a singular collective watching experience that Netflix could never rival).

In this context, Simona Forti develops a powerful argument, against the singular collective experience that produces a concept of revolution, for a multiplicity of revolutionary spaces.

Such a resolution will give the city the impetus to coordinate responses to gender-based violence in a manner that all city agencies can adopt, as both a singular and a collective goal.

Each performance of Mr. Green's live documentaries — which he does not plan to adapt for conventional screenings or home viewing — is a singular experience, and a collective one, with the potential for human connection and human error.

Each of New York's legendary mayors is captured in the city's collective memory by a singular, powerful moment -- Fiorello La Guardia reading the comics over the radio, John Lindsay walking through Harlem.

This error most commonly occurs when the subject is a "collective" noun - a singular noun that represents more than one person or thing, such as "group".

Dripping in history, the French capital has captured the collective imagination with a singular idea: that simplicity itself is inherently beautiful.

I'd cite sources like Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage, which notes that "media" is sometimes a collective noun, adding "a collective noun can take either a singular or plural verb".

In other words, it's more customary in American English to treat Mexico as a singular noun, even when it represents a collective team.