Sentence examples for collect. from inspiring English sources

"collect" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it as a verb to mean "to bring or gather together, typically over a period of time." For example: "Over the summer, I plan to collect seashells from the beach."

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collect.

verb

To gather together; amass.

  • Suzanne collected all the papers she had laid out.

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Such lawyerdom is how the NSA in 2006 transformed section 215's allowance to collect data "relevant" to an ongoing investigation into the ongoing bulk collection of US phone data – a construction that a federal appeals court rejected as illegal earlier this month.

Bluf Stands for "bottom line up front" – a request from NSA analysts to collect less data from the Muscular program (see below) because it is of no intelligence value.

Whether the action's beneficiaries in the streets below appreciated the reference to the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling was not recorded, but in a press release, activists did claim that a woman who had been trying to collect money for a bus ride was able to pay her fare with the free money.

While Aaron Swartz didn't live to see it, those who knew him, such as David Segal, the executive director of US organisation Demand Progress, say they have little doubt he would be "on the front lines fighting against a world in which governments observe, collect, and analyze our every digital action".

But the studio has turned round matters with its $200m £120mm) sequel: all those greenbacks are now firmly trapped in Spidey's web, waiting for Hollywood to collect them as the movie drives all before it at the box office.

All these romantics aren't good for you, you know," he says, rather patronisingly, as he helps her collect the books she has hurled out of a window in a fit of teenage angst.

You collect historical warriors and send them out to fight, upgrading their levels as you go.

February 2012: Additional provision included in 'How we use your information' to address certain data that we may collect, especially in the context of certain Apps and geographical location data.

Still, in 2012, a JIEDDO senior official, whose name is redacted in the report seen by the Guardian, instructed the COIC to "collect information on US companies that did business with Fatima".

Pasternak was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1958, though under threat of arrest or exile he could not collect it.

Moments later, Bywater appeared to have an easy collect from a Reading corner but the goalkeeper caught only air, and fortunately for him and his side, the ball slipped away to safety.

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