collect
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Residents have been able to collect belongings from their homes on an appointment basis.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The lightened tanker transits the canal and can collect the oil on the other side, or another ship can load it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
The plaintiffs asked the court to declare the surveillance policy unlawful, vacate it and prohibit Homeland Security from continuing to collect and maintain records describing individuals’ protected First Amendment activities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
At age 62, he is entitled to collect up to 50% of the amount of his ex-spouse’s Social Security benefits, if they are greater than yours.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
Whenever I make the choice not to collect a sample, I miss Journey.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
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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
Its holding is worth about $115 million at the current stock price — peanuts for a company that collects revenue of about $5 billion a year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
As tissues respond to those signals, the scanner collects the information needed to generate an image.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
Andrew Gula, a petition committee member and volunteer who collects signatures at state festivals, said that the public response has been overwhelmingly positive.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
He says, “Do you get it? It’s a light shaft. It collects light at the top from outdoors and brings it all the way into the room below.”
From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor
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When his fresh water ran out on July 11, he collected drinking water by filling buckets with seawater and capturing the condensation beneath plastic bags he stretched over the buckets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The researchers also collected information about each person's sleeping habits, personality, cognitive abilities, and psychological characteristics.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
Over three years, Helton’s business has collected $291,165 in public scholarship funds, Step Up said.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
Mayors are expected to get power to spend nationally collected income tax, and crucially to spend billions without strings.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
We’ve made three trips to the transfer station and one trip around the mall to the box stores and collected a ton of free stuff: nails, wood, wire, shingles, and more!
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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After spending decades collecting clean-lined Midcentury Modern furniture and accessories, stylist Wendi Weger felt it was time to give her Silver Lake apartment a playful update.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Zemian, who had also been uncuffed, started digging through the SUV, collecting spare tactical vests, then propped them underneath the agent’s head.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
The company could get aggressive at these auctions by not only collecting spectrum as a potential bargaining chip, but also by bidding up prices and raising the cost of business for its rivals, Zhu noted.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026
Accommodation providers will also be reimbursed for administrative costs of collecting the levy, receiving about 2% of the overall pot.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
The scientists in 1980 measured the growth of the bulge over time from the Timberline and Coldwater II sites; scientists today are doing the same but collecting the information via satellites from space.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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