collector

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As of October, the tax collector had lost approximately 19,000 people, or 19% of its staff, from one year earlier, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

It was discovered by avocational fossil collector Lloyd Gunther and donated to the Kansas University Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum in 1981.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

Plus, the Fed holds rates steady, and an art collector who keeps buying houses he rarely uses.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

Rembrandt's Vision of Zacharias in the Temple, from 1633, was excluded from a list of the Dutch master's works in 1960, and disappeared after being sold to a private collector the following year.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026

Kessler was the only person we ever saw from The Kingdom besides the tax collector.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff