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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
The Saudi authorities, I am told, are currently working flat out to collate everything they have on the Magdeburg market suspect, Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, and to share it with Germany's ongoing investigation "in every way possible".
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2024
On that day, I followed Nikki’s careful instructions to type and collate the lines of poetry I’d scrawled in composition books and notepads for years and leave the rest to her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2024
“We need to have data and to collate our findings from these countries to help build a picture of their modus operandi,” said Mr Kaya.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2024
Their personal papers were even harder to collate.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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Moving chronologically from the Neolithic period into the 21st century, “Cats: A History” collates a remarkable array of archaeological, artistic and literary sources to report on various human-feline relationships.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
The complex, diverse ecosystem created by European reef-building oysters has collapsed, according to the recent assessment we submitted to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, which collates the statuses of ecosystems and species.
From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2025
The other pieces of paper include notes and thoughts, which Servais collects and collates over the offseason.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2024
Eric Floehr is founder of ForecastWatch, a US company that analyses and collates the performance of weather providers, including accuracy measures.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2023
In the sketch of his life prefixed to his works, Niebuhr collates the friendships he himself mentions, with his fellow-poet Paulus Silentiarius, with Theodorus the decemvir, and Macedonius the ex-consul.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle
Dramatic footage posted online late Wednesday and collated by DHA showed a line of parked cars in the northern Sariyer district being pushed into the torrent of muddy water, where they were swept away.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
On a fold-up bed by the window, 59-year-old Xu Rulin from Jiangxi province pulls his carefully collated evidence out of a red plastic shopping bag.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Underlying earnings rose 43% from a year earlier to $6.85 billion, topping the $6.61 billion consensus estimate collated by Visible Alpha.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
A half dozen recent polls collated by USA Today as the country approaches the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence showed a majority believed the country's best years were behind it.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
He worked the machine and Russo carried the copies to Sinay’s desk, where he collated the pages into neat stacks.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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A central part of its work has been to gather testimony from Sami people about their experiences, collating some 300 interviews and written accounts.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
The BEA collects little data firsthand, instead collating and publishing numbers gathered by other agencies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
It says its methodology does not include any estimates and that it is the only organisation collating the figures since the Office for National Statistics stopped doing so in 2022.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025
“My mother included us in everything that she did, and I mean everything. I remember as a child collating pages for her second book. It was wonderful.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025
Harker has gone back, and is again collating his material.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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