collected
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The question easily collected the more than 75,000 signatures to get on the ballot, and a 2026 Boston Globe/Suffolk University poll showed some 66% of voters supported the income-tax cut.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 5, 2026
The findings, published in Nature Communications, are based on an analysis of 3,000 brain cells collected from 28 people with either FTD or end stage Alzheimer's disease.
From Science Daily • Jul. 5, 2026
The inquiry heard he even collected another fare and dropped the customer off, before speaking to his wife and finally deciding to call 999 when he arrived home at 12:36 BST.
From BBC • Jul. 2, 2026
Some of these quarters could’ve been collected by children, and then they could’ve gone out and bought their first candy bar.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2026
He gave me a bunch of wildflower seeds he said his wife collected to spread over any bare patches in the park in the spring, but I wonder if there will be any bare patches.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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Lesson 17
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