collector

Example Sentences

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The gallery was able to confirm it as Summer Fields by Eardley, and it has now been sold it to a private collector of Scottish art.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

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 became a reader, then a writer, and above all a collector and seller of books.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

“I'll forgive you, Jason; thousands wouldn't. What's this? Bit of a fossil collector, are we? May I?”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell