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collate

[kuh-layt, koh-, ko-, koh-layt, kol-ayt] / kəˈleɪt, koʊ-, kɒ-, ˈkoʊ leɪt, ˈkɒl eɪt /


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A machine can collect, compare and collate tremendous amounts of information, but it can’t do the thing that matters most of all—decide what has genuine value for human lives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

The Department of Health said it did not collate data on how many people in Northern Ireland are living with BED.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2025

The Saudi authorities, I am told, are currently working flat out to collate everything they have on the Magdeburg market suspect, Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, and to share it with Germany's ongoing investigation "in every way possible".

From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2024

On that day, I followed Nikki’s careful instructions to type and collate the lines of poetry I’d scrawled in composition books and notepads for years and leave the rest to her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2024

She pushes the button to collate the syllabus but forgets to push the button for staples.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

All Flock did was come up with a very user-friendly system that collates all the information quickly, with good search options.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

The complex, diverse ecosystem created by European reef-building oysters has collapsed, according to the recent assessment we submitted to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, which collates the statuses of ecosystems and species.

From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2025

The account collates and tweets out data from a number of agencies that track natural disasters - often releasing information faster than even they do.

From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2024

Emergencies have been declared in seven regions of Russia due to the fires, according to Russia's forestry service, which collates satellite data on the fires.

From Reuters ● Aug. 9, 2023

Collation, which otherwise corresponds to institution, does not make the church full, and the true patron can dispossess the clerk at any time, unless he is a patron who collates.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

The event marks the "final public session of the tribunal of inquiry" after which the last documents will be collated and added to the bundles bound for Rome.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Dramatic footage posted online late Wednesday and collated by DHA showed a line of parked cars in the northern Sariyer district being pushed into the torrent of muddy water, where they were swept away.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Underlying earnings rose 43% from a year earlier to $6.85 billion, topping the $6.61 billion consensus estimate collated by Visible Alpha.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

A half dozen recent polls collated by USA Today as the country approaches the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence showed a majority believed the country's best years were behind it.

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

He worked the machine and Russo carried the copies to Sinay’s desk, where he collated the pages into neat stacks.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

A central part of its work has been to gather testimony from Sami people about their experiences, collating some 300 interviews and written accounts.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

The BEA collects little data firsthand, instead collating and publishing numbers gathered by other agencies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026

It says its methodology does not include any estimates and that it is the only organisation collating the figures since the Office for National Statistics stopped doing so in 2022.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025

“My mother included us in everything that she did, and I mean everything. I remember as a child collating pages for her second book. It was wonderful.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025

Harker has gone back, and is again collating his material.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker


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