collect
Example Sentences
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Vendors sold buttons and hats — some with the tagline “resistance is beautiful” — while others collected signatures for various ballot measures.
From Los Angeles Times
In the corner of the room sits a basket of rushes, some of them were collected by Olivia.
From BBC
To preserve the evidence, officers erected a scene tent and created a grid of 50cm squares, allowing them to collect every piece of bone they could identify in the ashes.
From BBC
It banned the physicist from leaving the U.S.S.R. to collect the honor in Oslo.
The survey collects food intake data from a representative sample of about 1,000 people using three- to four-day food diaries.
From Science Daily
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