collected

Example Sentences

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The Scottish government sets business rates, called non-domestic rates, though the tax is collected by councils to fund local services.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

Servicing the U.S. debt already costs about $1 out of every $5 in collected tax revenue, according to estimates from Torsten Slok, chief economist at Apollo Global Management.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026

FedEx and United Parcel Service have pledged to return tariffs they collected directly from their customers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

In addition, studying the disease directly is complicated, since brain or nerve tissue cannot easily be collected from patients.

From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026

“Or we could put it in a bottle,” said Razi, seeing the water bottle she’d collected from Zheng’s hut.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook