How to Use collate in a Sentence

collate

verb
Definition of collatenext
Synonyms for collatenext
  • The photocopier will collate the pages of the report.
  • They are still collating the data.
  • There’s not enough hours in the day and no one can collate all that.
    — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Drones can collate the data to sniff out variances across a 1,000-acre farm, Armstrong said.
    — John Tuohy, Indianapolis Star, 12 Jan. 2018
  • As collated by Squawka, Swansea have created 47 chances to date in the league, which equates to 4.7 chances per match which is not sparkling.
    — SI.com, 31 Oct. 2017
  • The food is being collated into bags designed to last a student the first three weeks of the school shutdown.
    — Anna Claire Vollers | Avollers@al.com, al, 17 Mar. 2020
  • The singer wrote these segues to serve as narrative guides for the listener and to collate the album’s disparate genres.
    — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2019
  • They’ll get collated and condensed into not asking the same things.
    — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2020
  • One of its aims is to create a data portal to collate local findings.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 17 June 2021
  • Finally, the third section collates some of the most popular woolen and worsted flannels and coverts from the mill’s existing range.
    — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 11 Sep. 2024
  • How, on a day-to-day basis, will NICS interact with the disparate sources of information that it is now being asked to collate?
    — The Editors, National Review, 23 June 2022
  • Gómez’s study is the first thorough survey of violence in the mammal world, collating data on more than a thousand species.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2016
  • So every gibe is registered, the average speed collated and the flight time and the positioning of the boats measured.
    — Matt Majendie, CNN, 16 June 2017
  • With that in mind, LawnStarter, which collates travel statistics, surveyed the best US cities for urban walks and nearby hikes.
    — Lea Lane, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Reports that would normally take weeks to collate and send in are being done several times a week instead.
    — Maggie Fox, CNN, 26 Oct. 2020
  • Final box-office tallies are still being collated and will be released by UNIC later in the year.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2018
  • But if your reality is more cramped and chaotic than cavernous and collated, fear not.
    — Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Mother Jones writer Kevin Drum has been tireless in collating the vast pile of evidence regarding the link.
    — Noah Smith, Twin Cities, 21 July 2019
  • His book is freewheeling in a way, so collecting and collating his thoughts and quotes into categories was a huge process.
    — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The information gets collated, so the Institute has a base of science.
    — Courtney Devores, charlotteobserver, 19 July 2017
  • By 2008, the Stuys had collated more than a decade's worth of finding ads, along with interviews with orphanage directors.
    — NBC News, 30 Mar. 2020
  • The researchers focused on X because of their ability to collate and analyze its posts quickly.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 7 July 2023
  • The museum’s co-curators Jenny He and Dara Jaffe compared collating the pieces that feature in the exhibit to a scavenger hunt.
    — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 15 Sep. 2023
  • For many months, perhaps years, the work will continue to match DNA samples, collate the scraps, establish the cause of death, and determine what crimes may have been committed by the Russian forces who fled a week ago.
    — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2022
  • This collection of chants is collated into a cacophony of noise and support for your nation, and the one with the most participants in each clash wins.
    — SI.com, 12 June 2018
  • Then, the authors collated this tree-ring data with the past 50 years of observational measurements for the region.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 27 June 2017
  • At least seven websites have been created to collate all the latest polling, allowing voters to find out who stands the best chance of winning in their electoral district.
    — Marc Santora, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2018
  • The BMW, in touch with the cloud, which collated information from other vehicles, advised them that there was black ice ahead on the road—the car slowed from thirty miles an hour (traffic was heavy) to twenty for the slick patch.
    — David Denby, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2017
  • This would seem to be a perfect job for crowdsourcing; at least one decibel-monitoring app claims to collate users’ readings into a real-time guide to where the quiet things are.
    — Pete Wells, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2020
  • China’s exports of those machine tools more than doubled last year, according to trade data collated by the United Nations.
    — Pei-Lin Wu, Washington Post, 26 July 2024

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