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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
He told vehicle owners that forensic scientists had inspected the car stacker and advised them to collate any costs and expenses incurred as a result of the incident.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2025
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
Their personal papers were even harder to collate.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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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
China's ministry of civil affairs, which collates death statistics, has not published nationwide cremation data covering that period.
From Reuters ● Jul. 18, 2023
Collation, which otherwise corresponds to institution, does not make the church full, and the true patron can dispossess the clerk at any time, unless he is a patron who collates.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
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
The information is then collated into individual reports called acquisition packs which contain all the key metrics used to inform the decision on a player.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 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
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
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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
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
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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