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He later slipped and twisted his lower right leg badly as he made a dash to collect a supply package across ground covered by broken bricks, concrete shards, pieces of steel and other debris.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Divers collect wild oysters by hand, placing them in nets worn around their necks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
Preserving their remaining instruments is particularly important because no other missions can currently collect measurements from this distant region.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
During the trial, the court heard Hussain, also from Bradford, had rented the vehicle and was driving to HMP Leeds with Batool to collect a friend.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
And then I also had to collect cans, which didn’t go well.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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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
Between brass bookends, each a miniature bust of Shakespeare, are the novels she collects at yard sales.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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In response, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood ordered a review of the way such fines are issued and collected.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
I will always remember an elderly lady in Bootle, Merseyside, who had just collected her pension and insisted on putting £20 in a collection bucket as we walked down the north west coast.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 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
"It's collected in a totally different place and in a different cohort, so I think that adds to the strength of the evidence," Sharon said.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
Was she not supposed to know that Mrs. Sterling’s husband collected custom cars and antique planes, and had hundreds of them stashed in garages and hangars all over the city?
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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A retiree collecting $2,000 a month would lose about $440 a month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
The upgrade is expected to extend the operating lives of Voyager 1's remaining scientific instruments, allowing the spacecraft to continue collecting valuable information from interstellar space longer than previously expected.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
Elita Mtiyesa, a teacher, arrived at a filling station after collecting her children from school.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
Meanwhile, the large Perseverance Rover landed on Mars in 2021 and set an off-world driving record by traveling 28 miles while collecting rock and atmosphere samples.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
“Harriet!” cried Emma, collecting herself resolutely—“Let us understand each other now, without the possibility of farther mistake. Are you speaking of—Mr. Knightley?”
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
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