Rather than focusing on the league, the players should step forward and give more, not individually but in a collective sense.

All his life he'd been trained to think in the collective sense.

And a Syracuse team once known for its individual ambitions had demonstrated, again, a collective sense of purpose.

But sometimes they may simply express a collective sense of hope.

The government appears to have finally come to its collective senses on the issue, though.

Has our government taken leave of its collective senses?

A more important question is, where has our collective sense of humor gone?

Under someone's direction, the Orange have developed a collective sense of unselfishness.

"I think people have lost their collective common sense."

Less quantifiably, there has been a change in our collective sense of what's possible.