as in collaborative
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
Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 4 Nov. 2025
Data, competition, and the future of drone warfare The competition among units is fierce but cooperative when combat intensifies.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2025
Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2025
The cooperative is also behind the Partners in Care program, which pairs Nashville police officers with mental health professionals to help with calls that involve people in a behavioral crisis.
—Rachel Wegner, Nashville Tennessean, 22 Oct. 2025
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Adjective
Officers did not raise their voices, and Butler appeared cooperative as he was handcuffed and escorted out.
—Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 4 Nov. 2025
Data, competition, and the future of drone warfare The competition among units is fierce but cooperative when combat intensifies.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2025
Noun
Redevelopment of the housing cooperative have been in the works for years.
—Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2025
The cooperative is also behind the Partners in Care program, which pairs Nashville police officers with mental health professionals to help with calls that involve people in a behavioral crisis.
—Rachel Wegner, Nashville Tennessean, 22 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cooperative
Adjective
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With this conversion, the company has an opportunity to have a real, collaborative, and productive board.—
Kenneth Squire,
CNBC,
8 Nov. 2025
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Additionally, actor Omari Hardwick and singer Anthony Hamilton are nominated for their collaborative project Pages in the best spoken word category.—
Katherine Schaffstall,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Thank you Dodger Nation, Blue Jays organization and all baseball fans for your love and support.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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Having led a multimillion-dollar organization and mentored thousands of women nationwide, Martine now specializes in guiding high-achieving women to stop over-functioning, reclaim their energy, and lead with clarity and confidence.—
Maria Williams,
USA Today,
7 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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His win shows a collective institutional political fatigue, and inspires hope, in a particularly dark time, that there is new light and new solutions to be found in American politics beyond the binary confines of institutional Democrats.—
Newsweek Contributors,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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Many of the members of the collective Creators for Zohran, a group aimed at getting Mamdani elected, are working New Yorkers, not full-time influencers.—
Taylor Lorenz,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The first film out of a 2024 partnership between Amazon MGM and The Wonder Project, Jon Erwin and Kelly Merryman Hoogstraten’s indie studio, to develops series and films rooted in spirituality.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
9 Nov. 2025
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This sketch essentially spoofs his brand partnerships and bland style.—
Andy Hoglund,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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This joint autonomous trucking solution also integrates NVIDIA's DRIVE AGX Thor and Hyperion 10 architecture.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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The trio issued a joint statement supporting Lively shortly after the actress filed her civil rights complaint against Baldoni in December 2024.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The controllers’ union and Airlines for America (A4A), the commercial airlines’ trade association, declined to directly address the question of privatization when asked on Friday.—
Chris Isidore,
CNN Money,
9 Nov. 2025
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Drew Maloney, the CEO of the Edison Electric Institute, a trade association of for-profit electric utilities, suggested that only some states are the drivers of higher average electric bills.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
8 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Since 2019, California has partnered with jurisdictions in 28 countries—touching more than a quarter of the world’s population, with a combined GDP in the tens of trillions of dollars—to cut greenhouse gases, enhance climate resilience and develop clean energy.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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The combined company will have a huge stable of household brands under one roof, putting Kenvue’s Listerine mouthwash and Band-Aid side-by-side with Kimberly-Clark’s Cottonelle toilet paper, Huggies and Kleenex tissues.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
4 Nov. 2025
Noun
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So when the first children in the commune were born, factions emerged around which language the next generation should speak.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
6 Nov. 2025
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In the isolated Swedish countryside of the never-setting sun, Midsommar hints at deeper, darker forces beneath the commune's folksy, welcoming exterior.—
Dennis Perkins,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Cooperative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cooperative. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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