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collection

[kuh-lek-shuhn] / kəˈlɛk ʃən /


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He starts preparing for winter, ponders his stamp collection, checks the schedule for the garbage disposal and considers mowing the lawn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

The auction included lots from the collection of German Producer Reinhold Mack, who worked with Queen on several albums in the 1980s.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

As it came to fruition, he sought to answer two main questions when contemplating which works of his collection to share with the public.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

A former war reporter assigned to help plan a morale-boosting national festival faces the absurdity inherent in projects such as a cake-baking competition and a collection of uplifting poetry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

I grab the Emily Dickinson collection from Dad right before I leave and flip through it in the car.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

I invest a lot of effort in making my albums conceptual, since I’m not into records that are random collections of tracks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

Since his arrival a year ago at the helm of Chanel, Matthieu Blazy has created a buzz and sales frenzy at the classic French label, with customers queueing outside some boutiques for his latest collections.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

Today, the surviving library consists of about 1,800 scrolls and scroll fragments held in collections in Italy, France and England.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Kennedy describes her relationship with Róisín, as "unfinished business" as the lead character is the same unsympathetic teenager from her 2021 collections of short stories The End of the World is a Cul-de-sac.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Though she hunted through scores of insect collections and handled innumerable specimens, no one could give her the answers she sought.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman




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