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Discover LudwigThe phrase "asked for a collection" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when someone is requesting a group of items, data, or contributions, often in contexts like fundraising or gathering information.
Example: "During the meeting, she asked for a collection of ideas to improve the project."
Alternatives: "requested a gathering" or "sought a compilation".
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"Nobody has ever asked for a collection of prize winners.
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After Dr. Gotlieb asks for a collection, he asks again.
As the Times obituary noted, when Cullum was asked, for a "Rejection Collection" questionnaire, to complete the sentence "When I'm not cartooning, I …," he wrote, "am wrestling, then showering, with my demons".
"If he asked for a file on garbage collection in Kabul, and he received a binder of five hundred pages, he would finish it that night — and then take copious notes".
When Yorktown residents were asked how a recycling program could be made more convenient, nearly half asked for a container and almost as many asked for same-day collection.
The following year Faber asked him for a collection and A State Of Justice was published in 1977.
So I asked Fenriz for a collection of the stuff that had inspired the people who had inspired him to make music.
Both an ode to the rich history of magic in New York City, and an itemized primer on the conjurors and illusionists who preceded Copperfield, the show came about after the museum's assistant curator of exhibitions, Cristian Petru Panaite, emailed the magician last fall asking for a tour of his collection.
He asked for his stamp collection to be saved for his youngest brother "as he may take an interest in them when he is older".
For all participants explicit informed consent was asked for collection, storage and genotyping of the buccal swab material.
Patients are asked for permission for collection of paraffin-embedded tumor-material using the nationwide network and registry of histo- and cytopathology in the Netherlands (PALGA).
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