collecting

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Key details: The number of people collecting unemployment checks from the government, known as continuing claims, dipped to 1.78 million.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

Instead of collecting trophies, he sued a rival franchise, feuded with fans and—despite his success elsewhere in the entertainment world—relentlessly attacked the NBA itself.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

The approach involves collecting a patient's own immune cells, genetically modifying them to recognize cancer, and then returning them to the body to seek out and destroy tumor cells.

From Science Daily • Jun. 2, 2026

In another corner of the facility, people wearing smart glasses place and pick up playing cards and sort plastic plates by hand, collecting first-person videos.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026

“I don’t know why I started collecting them. I suppose those people reminded me of Nikkei I knew. Picking produce for a living. But today those people remind me of us. They had no home.”

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata