How to Use collate in a Sentence

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• 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
• 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
• The food is being collated into bags designed to last a student the first three weeks of the school shutdown.
  — Anna Claire Vollers | [email protected], al, 17 Mar. 2020
• But if your reality is more cramped and chaotic than cavernous and collated, fear not.
  — Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 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
• The tags allow Spotify to collate playlists based on your listening habits.
  — Harvard Business Review, 23 Oct. 2024
• The data that will be collated by the platform will be critical in building up data on new attacks and lures.
  — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
• Drones can collate the data to sniff out variances across a 1,000-acre farm, Armstrong said.
  — John Tuohy, Indianapolis Star, 12 Jan. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But Lo rightly suggests that the collated and edited footage still has plenty of emotional bite.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 1 Sep. 2024
• The researchers focused on X because of their ability to collate and analyze its posts quickly.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 7 July 2023
• 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
• The information gets collated, so the Institute has a base of science.
  — Courtney Devores, charlotteobserver, 19 July 2017
• Humans can collate and organize data collections in weeks or months with a dedicated effort.
  — Kriti Sharma, Fortune, 15 Jan. 2026
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The Guardian has collated numerous examples of such content, some with millions of views, that includes videos and images being shared out of context.
  — Jon Porter, The Verge, 12 Oct. 2023
• The move has been criticized since, resulting in this letter collated by the Artists for Palestine UK group.
  — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 13 Mar. 2025
• Some part of their job is analyzing data and synthesizing and collating information, something that large language models are very good at.
  — Matthew Heimer, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2026
• 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
• 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