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The process involves heating oil to temperatures above 350 °C, turning portions of it into vapor, and then cooling those vapors to collect different fractions.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
Within hours, she had agreed to meet Melissa nearby to collect him, but the individual never turned up, refused a cash payment and pushed for 100 Apple gift cards as a reward.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
Divers collect wild oysters by hand, placing them in nets worn around their necks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
In the third quarter, Doncic missed a three-pointer, but Jake LaRavia hustled to collect the rebound.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
He’d collect a tiny bit of interest…for nothing.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Poker players compete against one another while the house collects a fee.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Vantara collects genetic data to help prevent inbreeding among Asiatic lions, is building a university, and pledges to fund overseas conservation projects.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
The company collects “usage-based” revenue, rather than a fixed subscription revenue, making its returns from OpenAI hard to predict.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
If you want robots to navigate the real world, they can't just be trained inside computer simulations, argues Manish Agarwal, the founder of Humyn Labs, which collects and processes human-generated data.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
One is proud, one collects one’s receipts, and even if one is a bit melancholy, one moves on.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
Fundraising events are being held in both Spain and the UK, and so far about €11,000 has been collected.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
Police said they collected evidence from the scene and identified a possible suspect, and using license plate reader technology were able to place the suspect in the area at the time of the incident.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Savannah McDaid said she was shocked to discover four "metal pins embedded" in sweets collected by her three-year-old son after they returned home from trick-or-treating together.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History houses specimens collected by William Ronald Heyer, a former curator of amphibians and reptiles.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
But he tells me more about what exactly was found in the samples I collected.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
Another priority is collecting detailed information about every treatment.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
He won this time in a landslide over Republican Patrick Gillespie, collecting nearly 80% of the votes in the 33rd Congressional District located in Dallas County.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
She has been collecting popular images of “American Gothic” for almost 60 years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Elita Mtiyesa, a teacher, arrived at a filling station after collecting her children from school.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
She’d started collecting them even before Hanako was born, stuffing them into a drawer.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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