How to Use collation in a Sentence

collation

noun
  • This meant having an AI Agent for each stage of the product collation and review process.
    Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 14 May 2026
  • The collation has been denounced by Beijing as an anti-China bloc.
    Brad Lendon and Selina Wang, CNN, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Here is the collation of every single one, in alphabetical order.
    SI.com, 5 June 2019
  • Mezey’s finest translations remained unpublished except in a few copy-shop collations circulated among friends.
    Dana Gioia, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2020
  • On the other hand, automation debt is a collation of all of the simple and complex processes that are commonly automated but aren't.
    Sriram Bhargav Madhav, Forbes, 24 May 2021
  • At the Grand Synagogue after the morning services on a recent Saturday, the atmosphere was jovial at the kiddush, the post-prayer collation.
    Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2016
  • These queries, which are written in Cypher Query Language, integrate data from multiple sources without needing prior collation.
    Janakiram Msv, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
  • David reached out to the players collation, which was created by Anquan Boldin and Malcolm Jenkins in a combination of working with the league.
    Indystar Staff Reports, Indianapolis Star, 4 June 2020
  • This is especially important for healthcare, which often has large swaths of information in a variety of different formats and require collation from disparate sources.
    Dr. Sai Balasubramanian, M.d., J.d., Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Advertisement The result collation process will shift from manual to virtual transmission.
    Tolu Olasoji, Quartz, 24 Feb. 2023
  • At the same time, many companies still operate using a patchwork of small group expertise, spreadsheets, and fragmented databases requiring manual collation.
    Kriti Sharma, Fortune, 15 Jan. 2026
  • This is another significant source of information loss in the collation of Covid mortality statistics.
    George Calhoun, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Now, with just weeks remaining to negotiate a governing collation, the ties to Trump that Netanyahu had trumpeted with billboards of the two of shaking hands are widely seen as a liability.
    BostonGlobe.com, 12 Oct. 2019
  • Mahmood Yakubu, head of Nigeria’s election commission, said national collation of results in the presidential election would commence at noon on Sunday.
    Chinedu Assuda, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The Taliban has seized control of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan, the first major city to fall to the insurgent group after a string of victories following the withdrawal of foreign collation forces.
    Steve George, CNN, 9 Aug. 2021
  • There’s a similar wear-anywhere sensibility in the new bridal collation from H&M’s sister label, & Other Stories.
    Emily Farra, Vogue, 25 Apr. 2018
  • In fact, SmarterSafer, a collation made up of insurance companies, progressive environmental organizations and right-leaning think tanks, is one group advocating for sweeping change (pdf).
    Jen Schwartz, Scientific American, 23 Mar. 2018
  • There are more than 6,000 domestic observers and party agents at each tallying station will have to sign off on results that are then sent electronically to county offices and a national collation centre in the capital, Nairobi.
    Katharine Houreld / Reuters, Time, 7 Aug. 2017
  • An electoral officer in Rivers State, Nigeria’s main oil hub, suspended the collation of votes on Tuesday, saying he’d been blamed for the malfunctioning of the voter-verification system and his life had been threatened.
    Ruth Olurounbi, Bloomberg.com, 28 Feb. 2023

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