collect
Example Sentences
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They collect Social Security, Medicare and, in many cases, Medicaid — especially if they end up in a nursing home in their final months or years.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026
Frank Bisignano, CEO of the Internal Revenue Service, said on Wednesday that the agency will go after every “bad actor,” including wealthy individuals and businesses, to collect unpaid taxes.
From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026
“It costs money to market, to collect good data and to do most of the things required to break through in today’s attention economy,” Werde said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026
On a day that saw three players—McIlroy, Justin Rose and Cameron Young—take turns atop a crowded leaderboard, McIlroy came out on top at 12-under to collect his sixth career major, one ahead of Scottie Scheffler.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
As I bent down to collect them, I bumped the sewing basket off Aunt Kitty’s chair and heard the sound of a hundred tiny straight pins ping their way across my aunt’s freshly swept floor.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
Vocabulary lists containing collect
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme
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