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• As a whole.

  ‘her affection for humanity in the mass’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Contemporary Americans, in the mass, seem to have lost sight of, and connection with, the past.’
  • ‘There had to be minds to perceive ideas, and since only a small minority of our ideas were the products of our own fancy, they had in the mass to have some external cause.’
  • ‘Democracies work well, and my hypothesis is that this is because people in the mass have a different kind of intelligence at work.’