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collate

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


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The goal is to collate all the agreed-upon ideas into one single-page framework, the officials said.

From The Wall Street Journal May 7, 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

But as she concluded, the platforms do engage in editorial functions when they curate and collate content.

From Slate Sep. 29, 2023

Their personal papers were even harder to collate.

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

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

China's ministry of civil affairs, which collates death statistics, has not published nationwide cremation data covering that period.

From Reuters Jul. 18, 2023

The company collates the data into a web-based dashboard or sends the data back to the customer’s own systems through an application.

From New York Times Nov. 23, 2022

The tapes then go to the A. B. C., which collates and makes composite photographs of them for the instruction of captains.

From With The Night Mail A Story of 2000 A.D. (Together with extracts from the comtemporary magazine in which it appeared) by Leyendecker, Frank X.

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

Underlying earnings totaled $10.87 billion, down just 0.9% year over year but below a consensus estimate of roughly $11.03 billion collated by Visible Alpha.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 19, 2026

Famous stars were selected from the top 2,000 Artists of All Time, a list collated by the ranking website Acclaimed Music.

From BBC Nov. 25, 2025

Data collated by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, latest available 2024*

From Barron's Oct. 29, 2025

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 2, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 7, 2026

Now they can do the same with the stats on female players that they began collating in 2021.

From BBC Nov. 3, 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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