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collection

[kuh-lek-shuhn] / kəˈlɛk ʃən /


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Rocky Balboa is a stumblebum club fighter making $65 a fight and working on the side as collection man for small-time mobsters.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

"It's likely that these data collection services will increase", said digital labour expert Aditi Surie, from the Indian Institute for Human Settlements in Bengaluru.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

Over billions of years, this primordial collection of MN-zymes may have slowly evolved, renewed itself, and become increasingly sophisticated.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

The single’s accompanying album, “Good News for People Who Love Bad News,” was an overall pop-forward collection that signified the group’s commercial breakthrough and even earned two Grammy nominations in 2005.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

There was this amazing collection by Bead Clan Kitchen that showed how to make many traditional Diné meals.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith




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