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You have a family, or a team: its members do xyz; it does xyz.
I think those are a little bit more flexible, Jackie, depending on context.
"My family has a nice house"
"My family have nice houses"
But I would have expected that to be transpondial.
I reckon where singulars are treated as plurals there's an implicit "members of" stuck in, it's as simple as that.
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