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[kuh-lekt] / kəˈlɛkt /




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Instead, Indian farmers and entrepreneurs collect and process agave that grows wild.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

ADS-B is such a money gusher that private companies now collect and sell data to tax authorities.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

The team believes transfer learning could become an important tool for upcoming cosmological surveys, which are expected to collect unprecedented amounts of high-precision data about the universe in the years ahead.

From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026

This display is described as a “tiny slice” of the Huntington’s archive on Otis Reed “Dock” Marston, a historian and river runner who made it his life’s goal to collect information on the Colorado River.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Conger ordered the Garrett sons to collect a few armfuls of straw and pile them against the side of the barn.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson




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