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When messages involving foreign intelligence targets cross American networks, our agencies can collect that information in real time and use it to thwart those who seek to do us harm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
This approach allowed them to collect samples while minimizing damage to the valuable fossils.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026
The company is also expecting to collect $9 billion in customer prepayments in the next three months.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026
Volunteers helped collect and sort through the cards and began putting them up in a break room, where Jackie’s care team could feel supported.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
But one sideways look at Aunt Kate, and I knew to collect myself.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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Among those following the auction was Andy Garner, a mechanic from Norwich, who collects, transcribes and self-publishes wartime letters - ensuring the people in them are not lost to history.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
Vantara collects genetic data to help prevent inbreeding among Asiatic lions, is building a university, and pledges to fund overseas conservation projects.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
The company collects “usage-based” revenue, rather than a fixed subscription revenue, making its returns from OpenAI hard to predict.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
Another fund family that collects an impressive amount by that measure is active manager ARK Invest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
It's what collects the data he found about the two dates.
From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements
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IFF has developed its own AI tools using decades of internally collected data.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026
The investigation then expanded to older butterfly specimens collected across tropical Central and South America.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026
State Farm General, its California home-insurance subsidiary, racked up a $5.9 billion underwriting loss over the past decade, paying an average of $1.25 in claims and expenses for every $1 of premium collected, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
The former Birmingham and Dortmund man doesn't turn 24 until June but has already collected 61 England caps and netted 14 times.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
Resourceful as always, the young women collected the remaining fuel from each of their twenty aircraft and distributed it between eight lucky planes.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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At a time of widening deficits and ballooning public debts, the Greek government is one of the few in the West collecting more money than it spends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
The men “Ebenezer” rebukes as they come collecting for Christmas charity turn out to be gentlemen of some greed themselves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026
The Treasury Department’s normal strategy for collecting other federal debt, like delinquent tax debt, is to demand payment in full, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026
Earlier work involved some of the trust's first attempts to restore seagrass meadows in Cornwall's estuaries, with volunteers collecting and planting thousands of seeds while researchers tested different restoration methods.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026
He climbed out of the wagon, collecting a backpack on the way, then shook the driver’s hand.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
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