collect
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Bondholders collect interest in return for lending their money, which is known as the bond yield.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
The fast-food standards have them, of course, but so do regional chains and neighborhood coffee shops: download this, order ahead, skip the line, collect points, save your usual.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
"The people who used to collect things, stock up on things, or take an interest in things are gone," he added.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
The newly developed nanorobots show that it is already possible to collect bacteria, transport them, and release them at selected locations.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026
He led Penelope back to her bunk and told her to collect her things.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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It is fed by rainwater that collects in two artificial lakes.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
I think the next big opportunity will come from identifying who collects the toll after all this infrastructure gets built.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
She collects material from other places, too, like dirt from her daughter’s preschool yard or sand from local beaches — anything elemental that “will really alchemize and change form in the kiln.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
This change didn’t affect how the CDC detects and investigates outbreaks; for that it relies on a separate reporting system that collects case and genetic sequencing information from labs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
While other children of their age learned other things, Estha and Rahel learned how history negotiates its terms and collects its dues from those who break its laws.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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If the data were collected at different times, for example, some of the information -- especially on a fluid process like gaining US citizenship -- could be out-of-date, he explained.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
In just 15 minutes at a Manhattan arcade, the 20-year-old college student and her boyfriend had collected three prizes from the rows of claw machines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Meanwhile, in well over 100 film and TV appearances since 1974, the 79-year-old Jenkins has collected two Oscar nominations and four Emmy nods.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
People aged six and above would have their biometric data collected, with information - such as fingerprints - stored on the Eurodac database.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
“She collected marbles when she was young, and she has willed her entire collection to me.”
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
Lastly, a growing crowd of car enthusiasts is collecting vehicles that are remarkably normal—think Ford Tauruses, Honda Civics and Buick station wagons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Environmental Protection Agency to install air monitors and continue collecting date at nearby schools.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
She said the pandemic created conditions for increased interest in activities like collecting.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
She is one of 21 drone pilots for the OS, in charge of collecting footage to track changes on the ground.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
But I really didn’t think of much besides keeping track of the new jobs in my notebook and recutting the lawns that came due and collecting the money and handing it over to Arnold.
From "Lawn Boy" by Gary Paulsen
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