collector

Example Sentences

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"He was going from a collector to a dealer and it's a totally different thing buying as a collector than trying to buy as a dealer."

From BBC • May 6, 2026

The fossil was discovered by an amateur collector in the Judith River Formation in Montana, a region known for preserving a rich record of a 75-million-year-old ecosystem.

From Science Daily • May 5, 2026

USC journalism professor and longtime record collector Oscar Garza describes these markings as “Chicano hieroglyphics… a reflection of the friends who shared the memories of that song or album.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

A collector of Ferrari Formula One cars and yachts, Benjamin had met Ariane a few years before at a business meeting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

He was also a tireless collector and annotator of East European folk song, and is in fact one of the chief architects of a whole branch of music study known as ethnomusicology.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall