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


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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

The Department of Health said it did not collate data on how many people in Northern Ireland are living with BED.

From BBC Jun. 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

Rhian Bowen Davies, the Welsh government's former national adviser for violence against women, said there should be a "requirement on universities to regularly, consistently collate data".

From BBC Mar. 7, 2024

She pushes the button to collate the syllabus but forgets to push the button for staples.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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 account collates and tweets out data from a number of agencies that track natural disasters - often releasing information faster than even they do.

From BBC Jan. 5, 2024

There were around 1,300 incidents of people reporting issues with Netflix, as of 0051 GMT, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector, which collates status reports from a number of sources in the United States.

From Reuters Jul. 28, 2022

Collā′tor, one who collates or compares: one who bestows or presents.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

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

The number of deaths is likely to increase once all the data and reports from all European countries have been collated.

From BBC Jun. 29, 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

Collective S&P 500 profits are forecast to rise by around 14.4% from last year to just under $609 billion, according to estimates collated by LSEG.

From Barron's Apr. 7, 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

Skillfully collating the accounts of Auden’s intimates, he offers details about the poet’s sexuality, psyche, cratering appearance and deteriorating habits that are painful to contemplate.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 7, 2026

“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

Isaac found employing a research assistant for both his books was an integral part of discovering and collating details.

From Slate Dec. 28, 2023

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

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker




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