Collective
Collective noun - Members of a cooperative enterprise.
People and collective are semantically related. In some cases you can use "People" instead a noun "Collective".
People
People noun - Human beings in general.
Collective and people are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Collective" instead a noun "People".
Both words in one sentence
- Though the guide states that the people/collective unconsciousness already wanted a tomorrow implying that Charles' plan was doomed from the start.
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Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
Source: Virtue/Vice Codification - The people whose minds Kodachi Kuno of Divine Blood devours in order to take over their body as part of her collective are eventually shown as having fragmented pieces of their mental identity remaining in her collective mind as well as their entire souls enslaved to her will.
Source: And I Must Scream / Fan Works
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