- present participle of collect.
collecting
Example Sentences
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It seems like only yesterday Jake Bauers was a senior at Marina High collecting 48 hits with a .571 batting average.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
If this thesis is right, the obvious beneficiaries are the companies collecting recurring revenue from AI workloads rather than simply supplying the hardware.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
The crystal measures only about a millimeter in size, making ordinary methods of collecting sunlight impractical.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
The Met was responsible for this monitoring, which involved police officers visiting his home and collecting intelligence on him.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Guardian, though, is constantly telling me to hurry while also reminding me that I cannot forget my other mission tasks, like collecting samples from the terrain.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
