collectors
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Before 2020, local tax collectors had to sit at airports to spy on tail numbers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
For more seasoned points collectors, he flagged a few transfers that are consistently delivering value for premium travel experiences right now.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026
He ate with tax collectors, sinners and outcasts.
From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026
Other collectors, he says, might be a little less obscure, leaning into mainstream characters such as Strawberry Shortcake or from ’80s and ’90s properties including “The Land Before Time” and “Rugrats.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026
Another supposed dichotomy that becomes blurred in reality is a distinction between food producers as active managers of their land and hunter-gatherers as mere collectors of the land’s wild produce.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
