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collect

[kuh-lekt] / kəˈlɛkt /




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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.

From The Wall Street Journal

Several Iranian human-rights groups based abroad have been collecting documentary evidence and counting the dead, through eyewitness reports, hospital records and video evidence.

From The Wall Street Journal

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