collect
Example Sentences
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I am 69, and started collecting Social Security when I was 66 1/2.
From MarketWatch
A city cleaning crew stages occasional sweeps to collect and throw away the detritus.
Several Iranian human-rights groups based abroad have been collecting documentary evidence and counting the dead, through eyewitness reports, hospital records and video evidence.
Meanwhile, I was struggling to get through “Ready Player One,” a novel that had been collecting dust for years.
From Los Angeles Times
Dendritic cell vaccines are created by collecting immature immune cells from a patient's blood and growing them in the laboratory alongside antigens taken from that patient's tumor.
From Science Daily
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