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For many diseases, it is impossible or impracticable to collect detailed, local-level prevalence data.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Paltrow won and, rather than collect attorney’s fees from Sanderson, accepted the $1 payout and wished Sanderson well.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

While “others see data as something to collect and store,” Apple keeps users’ data private, Ternus said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Collaborators and co-authors Terry Plank of Columbia University and Bruce Houghton of the University of Hawaii, Manoa, traveled to Mount Etna to systematically collect samples.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

So now, I think, they need me to run out and collect some garbage.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

In an El Niño year, the mass of warm water that normally collects in the western Pacific shifts east toward South America, with ocean temperatures indicating how strong an event will be.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Felix, a food redistribution charity, collects surplus food from shops and other providers so that it is not thrown away or incinerated.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Former Times art critic Christopher Knight argues that much of the imagery the museum collects belongs to a media landscape that no longer exists.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

It operates using rainwater that collects in two reservoirs, whose levels have dropped due to the onset of El Nino.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

The driver collects our papers and hands them over.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

For years afterward, Angelenos collected firewood from the mangled forest of broken tree branches the waters left behind.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Together, they have collected $37 million in the first half of 2026.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Figures collected by the BBC show a slight fall in the number of shoplifting offences across England and Wales in the past financial year and that was mirrored in the West Mercia police force area.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

They have not yet collected physical samples of the corals, so the identifications made from the camera footage still need to be confirmed.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

“Perfect, Chicken. With all those teeth you collected, you could open a shark dentist office.”

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn

The practice of collecting race and ethnicity data is as old as the census itself.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Another Pokémon fanatic, Ash Mehr, said he started collecting the cards between 20 and 30 years ago.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been circling the Moon since 2009, collecting high-resolution measurements of infrared radiation coming from its surface.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026

Sigmund Freud, to put it crudely, suggested that collecting was a pursuit of control intended to make up for an infantile lack of bowel control.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

She had been collecting these plants her entire life, and some of them were deliciously exotic: saffron from the high plateaus of Persia, rhubarb-currant from the Caucasus Mountains, and ginger from the Far East.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack