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used or done by a number of people as a group
a cooperative space project undertaken by Russia and the U.S.
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Recent Examples of cooperative
Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Brown is the founder of Sanctuary Medicine & a cooperative member at Restore Forward in Brooklyn, NY.
—Emily Baker-White, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Megan Poinski, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
The private community, which is run by a cooperative funded by the residents, consists of around 4,300 people living there year-round, with numbers swelling to 12,000 during the summer as the area is popular with New Yorkers who keep summer homes there.
—Mark Joseph, Newsweek, 24 Feb. 2025
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Adjective
In their restaurant 95% of ingredients are produced by members of the cooperative and are used to create dishes such as nettle and dandelion croquettes, or artichokes stuffed with hazelnuts.
—Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Brown is the founder of Sanctuary Medicine & a cooperative member at Restore Forward in Brooklyn, NY.
—Emily Baker-White, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
There’s cooperatives that are spread out over miles.
—Megan Poinski, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
The private community, which is run by a cooperative funded by the residents, consists of around 4,300 people living there year-round, with numbers swelling to 12,000 during the summer as the area is popular with New Yorkers who keep summer homes there.
—Mark Joseph, Newsweek, 24 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cooperative
Noun
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Before the 2024 contest kicked off, over 60 LGBTQ+ organizations worldwide called for a Eurovision boycott over its inclusion of Israel amid the country’s siege on Gaza.—
Abby Monteil,
Them.,
29 Apr. 2025
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Two weeks after cutting funding for the organization that coordinates the report's production, the Trump administration has apparently informed all the authors working on it that their services are no longer needed.—
Alex Goy,
ArsTechnica,
29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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This is a moment to navigate the tension between personal will and collective belonging.—
Colin Bedell,
Them.,
18 Apr. 2025
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Dissanayake attributes the rise in ego-scrolling to the loneliness epidemic and a collective increase in stress and unhappiness among young adults.—
Alyssa Goldberg,
USA Today,
18 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Some students will arrive at college already managing audiences and partnerships.—
Dr. Diane Hamilton,
Forbes.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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The hotline came to the county in 2022 in partnership with the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services to provide 24/7 coverage for all residents in the county.—
Taylor O’Connor,
Kansas City Star,
26 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The battle for the 2027 tournament was even pretty close, with Brazil beating a joint bid from Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands by 119 votes to 78 at the FIFA Congress in Bangkok last year.—
Matt Slater,
New York Times,
22 Apr. 2025
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The institutions have co-signed a joint letter amid legal fights over the Trump administration's attempts to force through governance and leadership changes at colleges under the threat of frozen federal funding.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Brick Oliver, representing the homeowners association for the Cadence at Bainbridge, the development’s 55 and over community, said Thursday that 98% of respondents to the association’s survey opposed the In-N-Out.—
Rose Evans,
Idaho Statesman,
19 Apr. 2025
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But for Rodgers – who ran his best time in the two-mile his senior year at Wesleyan then stopped running – the association would pay off down the road.—
Lori Riley,
Hartford Courant,
19 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Five years on, Ellie has settled in a seemingly bucolic commune in Jackson, Wyoming, although a world-shattering lie about her past is about to catch up with her.—
Zing Tsjeng,
Vogue,
11 Apr. 2025
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Last Joel had heard from him came from a radio tower in Cody, Wyoming. Episode 6 saw Joel and Ellie happen upon Tommy’s new people, a group living in a commune in Jackson, Wyoming.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Tariffs were paused on April 8 for 90 days, except for China where mutual tariffs shot up to above 100 percent.—
Ian Dexter Palmer,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy both joined the navy, aware that fine military records would support their political aspirations; the relationship between the two men, moving from mutual respect to bitter rivalry, is one of the book’s stronger story lines.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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While Kuwait was the first to buy the warplane from Leonardo, other nations purchased it directly from the other companies in the consortium.—
Lara Jakes,
New York Times,
22 Apr. 2025
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In the period between the 2017 Inauguration and the end of that March, the consortium tallied about two thousand protests.—
Julia Angwin,
New Yorker,
12 Apr. 2025
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“Cooperative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cooperative. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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