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collect

[kuh-lekt] / kəˈlɛkt /




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At age 62, he is entitled to collect up to 50% of the amount of his ex-spouse’s Social Security benefits, if they are greater than yours.

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

A machine can collect, compare and collate tremendous amounts of information, but it can’t do the thing that matters most of all—decide what has genuine value for human lives.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Both companies will use the mission to collect lessons that can guide later uncrewed and crewed flights at the Moon.

From Science Daily Jul. 23, 2026

Millar said the scheme had expanded the range of products and locations people could collect them from and she believed it was a "testament to the need and the demand for the scheme".

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

I collect a sampling of the soil and bring it back inside my system’s chemical laboratory.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga

The material then collects in a spinning disk around the black hole.

From Science Daily Jul. 18, 2026

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has described the phenomenon as a public health issue, even though his government collects billions of reais in taxes from the sector.

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

Its holding is worth about $115 million at the current stock price — peanuts for a company that collects revenue of about $5 billion a year.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

Andrew Gula, a petition committee member and volunteer who collects signatures at state festivals, said that the public response has been overwhelmingly positive.

From Salon Jul. 9, 2026

Because Mrs. Mahone collects our phones at the start of every class, it’s the old-fashioned kind, written on notebook paper.

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven

In 2023, 45 states collected nearly $300 million, according to the Institute for Justice, which represents Mr. Jouppi.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

The researchers began with blood samples collected with permission from people with Alzheimer's disease at the NIH-funded Johns Hopkins Alzheimer's Disease Research Center.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

The only major straits where a toll is still collected are the "Turkish Straits" of the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles, which are governed by earlier agreements, signed in Montreux in 1936.

From Barron's Jul. 21, 2026

Geologist Samuel Pickworth Woodward, who was a professor at the college in the 1800s and a correspondent of Charles Darwin, collected many of the plants and flowers.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

But he tells me more about what exactly was found in the samples I collected.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga

However, TerraCycle, which involves consumers collecting packaging and sending it to be recycled, only runs the BuzzBallz scheme in the United States.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

The glory would be in seeing how quickly Nicolson could hustle a new and alarmingly large Bentley Continental GT S up the driveway without collecting any hay bales.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

Reasons for the fake posts included wanting to give the appearance that a company was growing, and collecting resumes for later.

From MarketWatch Jul. 15, 2026

Alison remembers her mother collecting melted bottles and warped pans left by the Bel-Air fire that tore through Laurel Canyon shortly before the family relocated there.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

Joan had been collecting Regina’s checks and then banking them for her so that she’d have a small nest egg when she returned to the United States.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady




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