compile
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Postal Service to direct states to compile a list of citizens who are eligible to vote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Now it analyzes 1,300 plans and more than 5 million participants’ accounts to compile its report.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026
The UN mission urged Afghan authorities to "compile a record of the missing" from the hospital strike to help their relatives find answers about their fate.
From Barron's ● May 12, 2026
Before you get to that stage, however, club owners and chairmen will rely on their sporting director and chief executive to compile a list of names.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026
I couldn’t find a list anywhere, but after searching “abandoned subdivisions” and “Grovepoint Acres” and the like for a while, I managed to compile a list of five places within three hours of Jefferson Park.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
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GasBuddy compiles a daily list of the ten cheapest gas stations by city and offers an interactive map that allows you to search up prices at every station.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
The system compiles real time electronic health records from around the world and contains about 275 million de identified patient records.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 10, 2026
The Beige Book, published eight times a year, compiles anecdotal reports from businesses, banks, and community groups in each region.
From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026
The AI system, called BK Assistant, compiles "friendliness scores" at the fast-food chain's locations based on employees' conversations, according to a promotional video the company shared with the BBC.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026
When he’s finished, he compiles statistics and concludes confidently that a flea’s ears are in its back legs.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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He compiled clips from his life, set it to music and recorded a voice-over telling people how he learned to make his money matter more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Tracking data compiled by BBC Verify shows that at its last recorded speed, the vessel would reach Duqm port in Oman, about 500 miles off the coast of Iran, around 22 August.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
As the judge noted in her ruling, the ongoing controversy has as much to do with when and how the diagnostic gospels were compiled as the scientific validity of the ailment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
That beat a 471.71 billion won consensus estimate compiled by FactSet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
In the 1970s and 1980s linguists applied glottochronological techniques to the Algonkian dictionaries compiled by early colonists.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Hong Kong's main tech stock index plans to include 20 more companies as well as artificial intelligence and robotics themes to reflect changes in the industry, the firm compiling it has said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
She said a federal immigration database the Department of Homeland Security was compiling to determine voter eligibility violated privacy laws.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
And she warned that even the benefit of a free apartment cleaning is "a pittance" compared to the potential profit that could be made compiling and selling valuable datasets.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
Konecny said that Red Lobster is compiling feedback on the promotion and evaluating the results.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
She had been compiling it without my knowledge for the last year or so we were together.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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