collection
Example Sentences
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That collection has grown in the subsequent decades into a treasure trove of neatly stacked programmes, tickets, scarves, signed photographs and ornaments spanning multiple rooms in his house in Stevenage.
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026
An international team of researchers from Bochum and Heidelberg in Germany and Beijing in China identified the drug while screening a collection of antiviral compounds.
From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026
“They need to manage the collection aspects and protect the taxpayer.”
From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026
In more than six decades of the program’s federal-state partnership, such sweeping data collection had not been required.
From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026
“You must mean our collection of the letters of Agatha Swanburne. There are thousands of them, for she was a faithful correspondent. Luckily, her handwriting was superb.”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.