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collector

[kuh-lek-ter] / kəˈlɛk tər /




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New York Knicks star Karl-Anthony Towns, an avid sports card collector, will front a splashy marketing push around the credit card.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

After spending huge sums on the monsters, collector Ensito says he is now questioning how much time and money people invest in collections each time a new trend comes along.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

Ross Kelbaugh, a researcher and collector of most of the photos in the exhibition, said perhaps it was circulated at abolitionist meetings to ask: "How could this 'institution' keep these little girls enslaved?"

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

Longtime sports business reporter Darren Rovell, an avid trading card and memorabilia collector since childhood, said on social media that expensive collectibles are at risk any time they are shipped.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Years later, when a chess collector finally took possession of the littered set and cleaned it up, Bobby’s reaction was typically indignant: “You’ve ruined it!”

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

In addition, the agency in the past had debt collectors try to convince borrowers to make payments and to help them get out of default through rehabilitation or consolidation.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026

BrickLink is used by Lego collectors worldwide to buy and sell secondhand Lego sets, source new bricks and purchase limited edition releases.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026

He’s part of a generation of baby-boomer collectors who have opened namesake private museums the world over and are wrestling with how to sustain them in perpetuity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

While the museum has largely kept mum, Sytner, an 82-year-old Liverpool native based in Italy, has gone to great lengths to persuade collectors and experts of his car’s singular authenticity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

Maria could visit libraries full of scholarly works and seek out fellow insect scholars, collectors, and artists.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman


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