collect
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Two pilots and two medical staff, both Canadian, had flown to Bermuda to collect a patient and their relative, Clarence Togeretz, director of flight operations at Latitude, told CBC News.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Hundreds of families were gathered at dawn to collect their relatives outside the base, where cars, taxis and buses were parked in ranks preparing to take them away, AFP journalists saw.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
He and English co-driver Elliott Edmondson were also on course to win the final stage and collect a maximum 35 points for the weekend to take the title by two points.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Roman is already designed to collect this information for scientific observations, allowing engineers to use the same capability to help determine and maintain the telescope's precise position.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
Samir wedged his foot in the doorway just in time and said, “Wait. Wait. I’m sure we can collect some coins between us.”
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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Shrewsbury Food Hub collects surplus food from supermarkets, manufacturers and farms, and shares it with 90 community groups and 13 weekly food shares.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
In July, a Munich court ruled against Suno in a case brought by GEMA, which collects royalties for German songwriters and publishers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
It includes two cameras that capture detailed black-and-white images and another camera that collects moderate-resolution multispectral images.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
JD users have to enroll in a John Deere operations center that collects farmers’ data and stores it in individual accounts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
To feed migrants, often more than a hundred each night, he collects food three days a week from stores in Nuevo Laredo.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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Samples are usually collected at just one or two locations shortly before the race, which means it does not provide detailed data.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
We said tuition “would be collected only if education is delivered, and it would be the policy of the school to refund all tuition payments for educational services that are not provided.”
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
For their very first mood board, they collected images of sleekly engineered products that command a premium: the iPhone, the Eames chair, the Dyson vacuum cleaner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
The work was computational rather than based on newly collected patient samples.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
I stared at his smudges of whiskers, the bags under his eyes, and the fat that had collected at his armpits.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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Leveraging cuteness to sell products isn’t exactly a new phenomenon — just ask the toy industry, which thrives on getting kids and young adults invested in collecting new cute or cuddly products.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026
It also arranged his credit card statements in a spreadsheet and helped him pursue his hobby of collecting ceramic bowls, a task which strikes me as having a fairly small community of potential users.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
"This dataset represents decades of work by field researchers from around the world, collecting samples from some of the most remote places, from New Zealand to Madagascar," said Professor Teeling.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
Americans can begin collecting Social Security between the age of 62 and 70, but their benefits generally go up the longer they wait to start.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
“We’re just collecting intel to see if it’s possible.”
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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