collecting

Example Sentences

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City officials said they were less interested in actually collecting the taxes from unlicensed businesses, which would be difficult, and more in using it as a tool to go after them in court.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

Key details: The number of people collecting unemployment checks from the government, known as continuing claims, dipped to 1.78 million.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

Instead of collecting trophies, he sued a rival franchise, feuded with fans and—despite his success elsewhere in the entertainment world—relentlessly attacked the NBA itself.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

The approach involves collecting a patient's own immune cells, genetically modifying them to recognize cancer, and then returning them to the body to seek out and destroy tumor cells.

From Science Daily • Jun. 2, 2026

She’d started collecting them even before Hanako was born, stuffing them into a drawer.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata