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[kuh-lekt] / kəˈlɛkt /




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The fast-food standards have them, of course, but so do regional chains and neighborhood coffee shops: download this, order ahead, skip the line, collect points, save your usual.

From Salon Aug. 20, 2026

"The people who used to collect things, stock up on things, or take an interest in things are gone," he added.

From Barron's Aug. 20, 2026

It continually receives information from other brain regions, but it does more than simply collect those signals.

From Science Daily Aug. 20, 2026

Companies collect vast amounts of data about consumers, including browsing history, location, device type, purchase patterns, and even how long a cursor hovers over a product.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

It was not an ideal environment in which to try to collect documents from a Soviet spy.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

I think the next big opportunity will come from identifying who collects the toll after all this infrastructure gets built.

From MarketWatch Aug. 10, 2026

This survey collects early batik textiles and later, more famous, nature-inspired abstractions to explore the deep connections between her work and the land.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 9, 2026

Once their spring blooms are complete, Aggrey meticulously collects the seed pods from the clarkias, gilias and phacelias, processes the seeds and packages them for gifting before the subsequent spring.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2026

The material then collects in a spinning disk around the black hole.

From Science Daily Jul. 18, 2026

Since Mags seems to have no ill effects from the nuts, Peeta collects bunches of them and fries them by bouncing them off the force field.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

If the data were collected at different times, for example, some of the information -- especially on a fluid process like gaining US citizenship -- could be out-of-date, he explained.

From Barron's Aug. 20, 2026

In just 15 minutes at a Manhattan arcade, the 20-year-old college student and her boyfriend had collected three prizes from the rows of claw machines.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

The testing in June 2022 reportedly found Chrysotile asbestos in 10% of its samples - the same type of loose asbestos fibre claimed to be in the sample collected by Hill.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

Meanwhile, in well over 100 film and TV appearances since 1974, the 79-year-old Jenkins has collected two Oscar nominations and four Emmy nods.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

Organ-grinders often performed alongside a captive monkey, who did tricks and collected money.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

“With Lucid, you collect so much intelligent information from the car. And now here we are collecting information about the health of a member and leveraging that. There’s a lot of resemblances,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

The insects protect their queen, collecting in a roiling, humming mass on his hand.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

It is not clear when Amazon began collecting Twitch users' data to train its AI models.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

After collecting the cells, the team removes the material from the brushes and uses forensic-level, next-generation sequencing technologies to isolate and amplify genetic sequences.

From Science Daily Aug. 11, 2026

The ship wandered from island to island—there were about eighteen in all—and Darwin ventured ashore, scrambling through the pumice, collecting birds, plants, and lizards.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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