collect
Example Sentences
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On my bookshelves lived my beloved book collection — hundreds of signed, first edition novels which had taken me years to collect.
From Los Angeles Times
Blood collected after exercise also boosted DNA repair, activating a key repair gene known as PNKP.
From Science Daily
"Now they must improve how they collect, analyse and use data to evaluate the initiatives under way to tackle the problem," she said.
From BBC
The state relies on billions of dollars collected by the government from thousands of Cuban doctors working in Venezuela, Mexico and other countries, and subsidized Venezuelan oil imports, to keep the lights on.
The BEA’s plans also reflect the challenges that government stats agencies have faced filling in data that could not be collected while government workers were off the job.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
