compiling

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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

“We are now compiling a database of all the looted items to facilitate their tracing and recovery.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

The V-Dem Institute, based in Sweden’s University of Gothenburg, has been compiling the world’s largest dataset on democracy for more than a decade.

From Slate • Mar. 17, 2026

While she was still in the hospital, he started compiling, as much for her benefit as for his own, sources of everyday happiness.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

She recited some of the research she’d been compiling.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel