How to Use collation in a Sentence

collation

noun

• The collation has been denounced by Beijing as an anti-China bloc.
  — Brad Lendon and Selina Wang, CNN, 9 Mar. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Here is the collation of every single one, in alphabetical order.
  — SI.com, 5 June 2019
• 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
• Mezey’s finest translations remained unpublished except in a few copy-shop collations circulated among friends.
  — Dana Gioia, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The platform is a collation of personalized happiness—a place filled with wedding cake and street fashion, expertly styled living rooms, and tips for taking care of your plants—all organized into an aesthetically pleasing grid of images.
  — Arielle Pardes, WIRED, 22 July 2019
• This is another significant source of information loss in the collation of Covid mortality statistics.
  — George Calhoun, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• 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

Last Updated: 2 Aug 2024