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[kuh-layt, koh-, ko-, koh-layt, kol-ayt] / kəˈleɪt, koʊ-, kɒ-, ˈkoʊ leɪt, ˈkɒl eɪt /


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She created and initially self-funded a "Preventable Deaths Tracker" - a system that aims to collate the reports to stop similar deaths.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

The goal is to collate all the agreed-upon ideas into one single-page framework, the officials said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

He told vehicle owners that forensic scientists had inspected the car stacker and advised them to collate any costs and expenses incurred as a result of the incident.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2025

On that day, I followed Nikki’s careful instructions to type and collate the lines of poetry I’d scrawled in composition books and notepads for years and leave the rest to her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2024

Their personal papers were even harder to collate.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

All Flock did was come up with a very user-friendly system that collates all the information quickly, with good search options.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

The complex, diverse ecosystem created by European reef-building oysters has collapsed, according to the recent assessment we submitted to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, which collates the statuses of ecosystems and species.

From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2025

The other pieces of paper include notes and thoughts, which Servais collects and collates over the offseason.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2024

China's ministry of civil affairs, which collates death statistics, has not published nationwide cremation data covering that period.

From Reuters ● Jul. 18, 2023

After it has been sawed, or scratched, the book goes to a girl who collates it—that is, examines it thoroughly, signature by signature, and makes sure that everything is in its right place.

From The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing by Frederick H. Hitchcock

Dramatic footage posted online late Wednesday and collated by DHA showed a line of parked cars in the northern Sariyer district being pushed into the torrent of muddy water, where they were swept away.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Underlying earnings rose 43% from a year earlier to $6.85 billion, topping the $6.61 billion consensus estimate collated by Visible Alpha.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

English Heritage has also acquired a collection of 800 historical postcards of Dover Castle, which were collated by the site's former head custodian.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

That information was collated in a letter about Calocane's risk to others, which was sent to his GP replicating the "same mistakes", the inquiry heard.

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026

De Vries also pored through Darwin's books, and he latched onto the theory of pangenesis—the idea that “particles of information” from the body were somehow collected and collated in sperm and eggs.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

A central part of its work has been to gather testimony from Sami people about their experiences, collating some 300 interviews and written accounts.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

The BEA collects little data firsthand, instead collating and publishing numbers gathered by other agencies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026

Instead, the platform was "more commonly used by individuals collating images for inspiration and idea curation," she said.

From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2025

“My mother included us in everything that she did, and I mean everything. I remember as a child collating pages for her second book. It was wonderful.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025

Harker has gone back, and is again collating his material.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker


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