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

“True Color” is also a vivid account of the nearly Sisyphean task of compiling a dictionary for a living language.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 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

Automatically, the AI assistant began compiling code on the screen that, without any experience, I couldn't understand.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026

She had been compiling it without my knowledge for the last year or so we were together.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee