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For many diseases, it is impossible or impracticable to collect detailed, local-level prevalence data.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Paltrow won and, rather than collect attorney’s fees from Sanderson, accepted the $1 payout and wished Sanderson well.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Collaborators and co-authors Terry Plank of Columbia University and Bruce Houghton of the University of Hawaii, Manoa, traveled to Mount Etna to systematically collect samples.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

Bins finally arrived on Hawthorn Meadows in Buckley, Flintshire, last month but Nathan Long and 60 other households can still only watch as refuse workers collect rubbish or recyclables from a nearby street.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

Picasso was a great collector, and he loved to collect Spanish art.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

Typically, warm water collects in the western Pacific.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Felix, a food redistribution charity, collects surplus food from shops and other providers so that it is not thrown away or incinerated.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Former Times art critic Christopher Knight argues that much of the imagery the museum collects belongs to a media landscape that no longer exists.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

It operates using rainwater that collects in two reservoirs, whose levels have dropped due to the onset of El Nino.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

“Every ten years the United States government collects data to find out who is living in the US. The census takers ask questions about age, sex, and race, to see how the country is changing.”

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

Her opportunity eventually came in the form of a reddish-brown snake measuring 28 inches long that had been collected in the forests of New Guinea.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

Images collected by New Horizons in 2015 and 2016 showed that its northern region contains city-sized geologic convection cells separated by thin dark lines and broader, more diffuse dark patches.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

Figures collected by the BBC show a slight fall in the number of shoplifting offences across England and Wales in the past financial year and that was mirrored in the West Mercia police force area.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

“The T. rex teeth we studied were collected decades ago, before the analytical techniques we used were even possible.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

By the time Household’s CEO, Bill Aldinger, collected his $100 million, Eisman was on his way to becoming the financial market’s first socialist.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

He took to collecting acorns — the seeds of oak trees.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

Without collecting race and ethnicity data in the census, these estimates could not be produced, needlessly wasting resources and endangering lives.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Owen Ndlovu, a former presenter with the country's public broadcaster, the SABC, was seized on Tuesday while collecting his wife from a church in Katlehong, police said.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

His only diversion is collecting newspaper clippings of famous people, leading him to make secret late-night forays into the archives to uncover the minutiae of their lives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

An exploratory “survey” of South America had been commissioned, and the expedition required the service of a “gentleman scientist” who could assist in collecting specimens.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee