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 believes people often only realise the value of cards after cataloguing them, adding: "My friend who is a big Pokemon collector, his account came out at about £100,000."

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

Plus, the Fed holds rates steady, and an art collector who keeps buying houses he rarely uses.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 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