collector

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Recent Examples of collector View 9 Images View gallery - 9 images A folding saw that looks and feels as premium and exclusive as a collector's edition folding knife? New Atlas, 24 May 2025 Jim Irsay, the longtime owner and CEO of the Indianapolis Colts and a prolific rock-and-roll collector, has died at age 65. Brittney Melton, NPR, 23 May 2025 Pier Paolo Righi, chief executive officer at Karl Lagerfeld, considers the sketch a true collector’s piece from the brand’s archive, and a great example of the late German designer’s sense of humor. Miles Socha, Footwear News, 22 May 2025 But private collectors snapped up some of these rarities, isolating the fossils from scientific study and hobbling investigations into this pivotal moment in avian evolution. Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 21 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for collector
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Noun
  • Everybody—from beaded bag connoisseurs to wellness influencers—are talking about sardines.
    Lorena Meouchi, Vogue, 27 May 2025
  • In Paris, the animation becomes truly splendid under this connoisseur extraordinaire of a director.
    Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • Of the five listed here, three (Harang, Castillo, Arroyo) came via trades, one was drafted (Bailey), and one was signed as an amateur (Cueto).
    C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 29 May 2025
  • With the win, Iwai became the third rookie to win this season, joining compatriot Rio Takeda, who won the Blue Bay LPGA in March, and former World No. 1 amateur Ingrid Lindblad, who won the JM Eagle LA Championship in April.
    Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 May 2025
Noun
  • After Christmas Day, Netflix will give fans a week to recover before dropping the finale.
    Pamela Avila, USA Today, 2 June 2025
  • Since this season’s finale, which sees Mark abandon his outie’s wife, Gemma, to run away with the anarchic Helly, Britt Lower, who plays the character, has observed fans’ impassioned response to that cliffhanger.
    Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • Only 20 experts out of the roughly 525 who did the work at USAID's Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance and its Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Relief are being hired by PRM, the source said.
    Jonathan Landay, USA Today, 23 May 2025
  • Legal experts have suggested that people who wish to use agentic systems sign contracts that push responsibility onto the companies supplying the technology.
    Paresh Dave, Wired News, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • Big news for vintage train enthusiasts: The Orient Express brand is back with a luxe new train inspired by 1960s style.
    Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 25 May 2025
  • Only one other California boat show popped up on USA Today’s list of the best American events for boat enthusiasts.
    Kendrick Marshall, Sacbee.com, 25 May 2025
Noun
  • Here are five must-see spots for literature fiends in Istanbul: Pera Palace Hotel Pera Palace is most well-known for literature lovers as the hotel where Agatha Christie allegedly wrote Murder on the Orient Express.
    Kaitlyn McInnis, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
  • And that’s where many younger Millennials and Gen Z music lovers first fell in love with the artform.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 25 May 2025
Noun
  • The choice between a bureaucrat and a dilettante to run an army − in his days, like in ours − seems like an obvious one.
    Michel Anteby, The Conversation, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Him and all the other dilettantes who don’t know the wonders of VistaVision.
    Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Needless to say, the terrorist groupie’s apologists at Brown were apoplectic that this savage had been tossed out of the country.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 19 Mar. 2025
  • In Cameron Crowe’s semi-autobiographical film, the actress plays Penny Lane, a groupie for the fictional band Stillwater.
    Hannah Malach, WWD, 26 Feb. 2025

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“Collector.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collector. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.

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