collector

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The tax collector is expecting more than 20.7 million extension requests this year, which would be a record breaker.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026

In July 1846, two months after the U.S. invaded Mexico, the tax collector came calling for six years’ back taxes.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

The gallery was able to confirm it as Summer Fields by Eardley, and it has now been sold it to a private collector of Scottish art.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 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

“Next time you see my sister,” she told the collector, “tell her not to be such a stranger.”

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith