compiling

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“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

For the Facebook creator, his primary residence has long been an enormous Palo Alto compound, which he spent several years compiling and which is now estimated to be worth over $110 million.

From MarketWatch • May 4, 2026

The V-Dem Institute, based in Sweden’s University of Gothenburg, has been compiling the world’s largest dataset on democracy for more than a decade.

From Slate • Mar. 17, 2026

Automatically, the AI assistant began compiling code on the screen that, without any experience, I couldn't understand.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026

With an hour left before my privileges were up and Dad would take back the computer, I was determined to finish compiling a feel-good playlist.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas