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compile

[kuhm-pahyl] / kəmˈpaɪl /


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Postal Service to direct states to compile a list of citizens who are eligible to vote.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

Now it analyzes 1,300 plans and more than 5 million participants’ accounts to compile its report.

From MarketWatch Jun. 16, 2026

The family has already spent several thousand dollars on agencies to compile and process documents.

From Barron's Jun. 7, 2026

Index providers—the firms that compile market averages like the S&P 500, the Nasdaq 100, the Russell 1000 and so on—have been scurrying to accommodate these titanic deals.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 2, 2026

I merely determined to compile a list of all the books I had ever read.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

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

The health department compiles the annual report from records provided by the Los Angeles County medical examiner augmented by state death certificates.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 10, 2026

The Beige Book, published eight times a year, compiles anecdotal reports from businesses, banks, and community groups in each region.

From Barron's Mar. 4, 2026

Stern says he had attached a liability statement - a document often drawn up in a bankruptcy process, where a person compiles a list of all the money they owe.

From BBC Feb. 11, 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

He compiled clips from his life, set it to music and recorded a voice-over telling people how he learned to make his money matter more.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

Tracking data compiled by BBC Verify shows that at its last recorded speed, the vessel would reach Duqm port in Oman, about 500 miles off the coast of Iran, around 22 August.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

Compared with chemical dependencies, which have been well understood since before the first DSM was compiled in 1952, the framework for describing so-called behavioral addictions is extremely new, he and others said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 8, 2026

This is close to its highest level of concentration to the top 10 according to data compiled by Ned Davis Research going back to 1972.

From MarketWatch Aug. 6, 2026

People had savagely ripped into Gaines then, as if the seven and two record the team compiled was the same as not winning a single game.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

Clinical geneticist Dr. Xiao P. Peng, who helped confirm Hinken’s family’s diagnoses, said the tools still make mistakes and are better at generating possible leads, translating complex medical jargon and compiling research than making diagnoses.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

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

One of the difficulties in compiling this report was the analysis suffers from what the team refers to as the “omitted variables problem.”

From MarketWatch Aug. 4, 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

Using her as our muse, the students will begin compiling the diaries they’ve been keeping into a collaborative book.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers




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