collector

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As of October, the tax collector had lost approximately 19,000 people, or 19% of its staff, from one year earlier, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

It was discovered by avocational fossil collector Lloyd Gunther and donated to the Kansas University Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum in 1981.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

He became a reader, then a writer, and above all a collector and seller of books.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Rembrandt's Vision of Zacharias in the Temple, from 1633, was excluded from a list of the Dutch master's works in 1960, and disappeared after being sold to a private collector the following year.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026

She marched back inside the run like she had been a chicken feeder and egg collector all her life.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia