compile
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The order directed the Department of Homeland Security to compile lists of U.S. citizens who reside in each state and will be at least 18 years old by Election Day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Sheinbaum vehemently denied any attempt to compile a blacklist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Now it analyzes 1,300 plans and more than 5 million participants’ accounts to compile its report.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026
The UN mission urged Afghan authorities to "compile a record of the missing" from the hospital strike to help their relatives find answers about their fate.
From Barron's ● May 12, 2026
Bobby, dog tag entwined, managed to compile an even score, with two wins, two losses, and six draws, fretting afterward that “I didn’t do too well.”
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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The editor then compiles the footage to be ready for the audience to watch the next day to record their reactions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Robert Watts, who compiles the list, said this year's Rich List is "a tale of two exoduses".
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
The data came from the Geneva registry and the National Agency for Cancer Registration, which compiles information from cantonal cancer registries across Switzerland.
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2026
“It’s become such a complex system,” says Ruthie Rowe, president of NeedyMeds, a nonprofit that compiles information on medication patient assistance programs.
From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026
When he’s finished, he compiles statistics and concludes confidently that a flea’s ears are in its back legs.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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Excluding nonrecurring items, adjusted earnings per share dropped to $3.53 from $4.38 and missed the average analyst estimate compiled by FactSet of $3.76.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
That appears to have continued into the third quarter, with a measure of manufacturing activity compiled by S&P Global pointing to the fastest expansion in four and a half years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Insurance regulators and federal investigators are looking into whether certain financial transactions between various entities controlled by Walter were properly disclosed to investors and compiled with regulations designed to protect them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Digital archives of the incident, later compiled in an online documentary tracking his multiyear radicalization, tell the tale.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
Scarcely a man now alive had yet been bom when Malleon had compiled his dusty lists of weddings, births, and deaths.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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Hong Kong's main tech stock index plans to include 20 more companies as well as artificial intelligence and robotics themes to reflect changes in the industry, the firm compiling it has said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
She said a federal immigration database the Department of Homeland Security was compiling to determine voter eligibility violated privacy laws.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
And she warned that even the benefit of a free apartment cleaning is "a pittance" compared to the potential profit that could be made compiling and selling valuable datasets.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
“For his son’s sake,” writes Mr. Romm, “he began compiling quotes from those texts, drawing on works of all types, both poetry and prose.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
Indeed, he was one of the enormous team of experts now engaged in compiling the Eleventh Edition of the Newspeak dictionary.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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