collect
Example Sentences
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An ordinance passed in 1968 lets the school board collect a 1% sales tax to fund teacher bonuses.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
Instead, Indian farmers and entrepreneurs collect and process agave that grows wild.
From BBC • 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
China may also hope to "collect intelligence for the purpose of monitoring trends in pro-Russian and pro-Chinese human networks within the North Korean military", he added.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
Greg Lippmann was paid $47 million in 2007, although $24 million of it was in restricted stock that he could not collect unless he hung around Deutsche Bank for a few more years.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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