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collate

[kuh-leyt, koh-, ko-, koh-leyt, kol-eyt] / 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

Fekkai decided to collate the data after buying her own tickets for the Cowboy Carter tour.

From BBC Feb. 13, 2025

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

Rhian Bowen Davies, the Welsh government's former national adviser for violence against women, said there should be a "requirement on universities to regularly, consistently collate data".

From BBC Mar. 7, 2024

There are at least four columns filled with bank managers, accountants, loan officers, cotton collate operators.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

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

There were around 1,300 incidents of people reporting issues with Netflix, as of 0051 GMT, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector, which collates status reports from a number of sources in the United States.

From Reuters Jul. 28, 2022

In the sketch of his life prefixed to his works, Niebuhr collates the friendships he himself mentions, with his fellow-poet Paulus Silentiarius, with Theodorus the decemvir, and Macedonius the ex-consul.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle

On a fold-up bed by the window, 59-year-old Xu Rulin from Jiangxi province pulls his carefully collated evidence out of a red plastic shopping bag.

From BBC Aug. 10, 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

After her medical diagnosis three years ago, Morgan, 62, set up The Autistic Woman website through which she collated information and stories.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

A company can publish big year-on-year profit gains but see its stock decline because the bottom line didn’t meet a consensus forecast figure collated from a dozen or so investment banks.

From Barron's Mar. 17, 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

Skillfully collating the accounts of Auden’s intimates, he offers details about the poet’s sexuality, psyche, cratering appearance and deteriorating habits that are painful to contemplate.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

The BLS spends the days before a release collating the data and assembling the public report.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 2, 2026

“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

June, a PKM evangelist, breaks down some of the many apps and processes for collating one’s notes into an organized web of insights and connections.

From Slate Jun. 13, 2024

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

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker




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