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collate

[kuh-leyt, koh-, ko-, koh-leyt, kol-eyt] / kəˈleɪt, koʊ-, kɒ-, ˈkoʊ leɪt, ˈkɒl eɪt /


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A machine can collect, compare and collate tremendous amounts of information, but it can’t do the thing that matters most of all—decide what has genuine value for human lives.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

He's part of a group called Concerned for Castleton, which was set up a year ago to collate information and share it with local authorities.

From BBC May 4, 2025

On that day, I followed Nikki’s careful instructions to type and collate the lines of poetry I’d scrawled in composition books and notepads for years and leave the rest to her.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 15, 2024

But as she concluded, the platforms do engage in editorial functions when they curate and collate content.

From Slate Sep. 29, 2023

Their personal papers were even harder to collate.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

The complex, diverse ecosystem created by European reef-building oysters has collapsed, according to the recent assessment we submitted to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, which collates the statuses of ecosystems and species.

From Salon Jan. 6, 2025

Eric Floehr is founder of ForecastWatch, a US company that analyses and collates the performance of weather providers, including accuracy measures.

From BBC Dec. 3, 2023

There were around 1,800 reports on Downdetector, which collates status reports from a number of sources.

From Reuters Mar. 2, 2023

The company collates the data into a web-based dashboard or sends the data back to the customer’s own systems through an application.

From New York Times Nov. 23, 2022

The tapes then go to the A. B. C., which collates and makes composite photographs of them for the instruction of captains.

From Actions and Reactions by Rudyard Kipling

Underlying earnings rose 43% from a year earlier to $6.85 billion, topping the $6.61 billion consensus estimate collated by Visible Alpha.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

The number of deaths is likely to increase once all the data and reports from all European countries have been collated.

From BBC Jun. 29, 2026

A company can publish big year-on-year profit gains but see its stock decline because the bottom line didn’t meet a consensus forecast figure collated from a dozen or so investment banks.

From Barron's Mar. 17, 2026

Underlying earnings totaled $10.87 billion, down just 0.9% year over year but below a consensus estimate of roughly $11.03 billion collated by Visible Alpha.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 19, 2026

He worked the machine and Russo carried the copies to Sinay’s desk, where he collated the pages into neat stacks.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

Skillfully collating the accounts of Auden’s intimates, he offers details about the poet’s sexuality, psyche, cratering appearance and deteriorating habits that are painful to contemplate.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

The BEA collects little data firsthand, instead collating and publishing numbers gathered by other agencies.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 7, 2026

It says its methodology does not include any estimates and that it is the only organisation collating the figures since the Office for National Statistics stopped doing so in 2022.

From BBC Oct. 7, 2025

“My mother included us in everything that she did, and I mean everything. I remember as a child collating pages for her second book. It was wonderful.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 22, 2025

Harker has gone back, and is again collating his material.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker




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