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


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But if AI can collate and analyze data to capture individual preferences at scale we may no longer need the assumption of the rational actor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

He's part of a group called Concerned for Castleton, which was set up a year ago to collate information and share it with local authorities.

From BBC ● May 4, 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

"We will collate our thoughts, along with the rest of the players in terms of handing over something he can read and look through that's valuable," he said.

From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2024

Their personal papers were even harder to collate.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Moving chronologically from the Neolithic period into the 21st century, “Cats: A History” collates a remarkable array of archaeological, artistic and literary sources to report on various human-feline relationships.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 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 other pieces of paper include notes and thoughts, which Servais collects and collates over the offseason.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2024

Eric Floehr is founder of ForecastWatch, a US company that analyses and collates the performance of weather providers, including accuracy measures.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2023

This view of latency collates a lot of facts—secondary sexual characters in each individual; tendency of latent character to appear temporarily in youth; effect of crossing in educing talent, character, etc.

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Sir Francis Darwin

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

There's a website where all the available properties are collated; crucially, all of the financial incentives are also listed.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 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

De Vries also pored through Darwin's books, and he latched onto the theory of pangenesis—the idea that “particles of information” from the body were somehow collected and collated in sperm and eggs.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

This pivot involves collating data on deals, steering liquidity, and shaping benchmark price references through a state-backed platform.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

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

“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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