- present participle of compile.
compiling
Example Sentences
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And she warned that even the benefit of a free apartment cleaning is "a pittance" compared to the potential profit that could be made compiling and selling valuable datasets.
From BBC • Jun. 20, 2026
Everlab’s platform ingests and organizes documents and data from doctors, specialists and pathologists, compiling patient records that it augments with real-time data from users’ existing wearable devices.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 16, 2026
Charlotin has been compiling a database of court documents containing AI hallucinations since April 2023.
From Barron's • Jun. 15, 2026
For the Facebook creator, his primary residence has long been an enormous Palo Alto compound, which he spent several years compiling and which is now estimated to be worth over $110 million.
From MarketWatch • May 4, 2026
The long walk to the Manpower Directorate, the sheer mindlessness of compiling names and addresses day after day, exhausted him, she knew, yet he came home each day with lit-up eyes.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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