collect
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These devices collect information about immigrants, citizens and protesters.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
Together mother and daughter would collect $26.48 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Federal laws, particularly the Privacy Act, dictate what data government agencies can collect, what it can be used for, how it can be shared, and how it must be protected.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
These programs collect both blood and post-mortem brain tissue from people with and without Alzheimer's.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
The purpose of Fly’s flight is to collect new data in a quicker and more efficient fashion than I am able to.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
I think the next big opportunity will come from identifying who collects the toll after all this infrastructure gets built.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
The facilities are structured to amortize over time as CoreWeave collects cash from long-term customer contracts with the debt expected to be fully repaid by the time the contracts expire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
The material then collects in a spinning disk around the black hole.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has described the phenomenon as a public health issue, even though his government collects billions of reais in taxes from the sector.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
I click answers while everyone else collects their phones.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
The Brewers added two insurance runs in the seventh, as Bauers and Andrew Vaughn collected a pair of RBI knocks against left-handed reliever Alex Vesia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Photos showed 49 gold bars laid out on a table at the construction site and hundreds of gold coins collected in the builders’ bucket.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
The voter rolls the DOJ had collected contained sensitive information on millions of Americans.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
The bones were found inside rock containing mosasaur remains collected in Kishiwada City, Osaka Prefecture.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
His long, bushy beard collected more stems as it brushed the countertop, and his shirt and pants were spattered with whatever Babulya was furiously stirring in the pot.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
Researchers hope the ongoing project will generate additional discoveries by collecting state-of-the-art brain imaging and other neurological data.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
Environmental Protection Agency to install air monitors and continue collecting date at nearby schools.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
She is one of 21 drone pilots for the OS, in charge of collecting footage to track changes on the ground.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
The next boom could be in stocks of companies collecting recurring revenue from AI workloads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
To them, we’re just two kids collecting pop bottles.
From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist
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