collate
verb (used with object)
to gather or arrange in their proper sequence (the pages of a report, the sheets of a book, the pages of several sets of copies, etc.).
had collated
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past perfectof collate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Four days later, Chelsea provided the FA with the witness statements they had collated.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 22, 2012
The analysis is still bound for peer review and publication, but Muller and his colleagues recently disclosed an initial sampling of about 2 percent of the 1.6 billion records they had collated.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2011
Denby made a very slow recovery; and, even when convalescent, consciously added not one fact to those we already had collated; his memory had completely deserted him!
From The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer
The readings of the fifteen MSS. which Robert’s son Henri had collated for the purpose were merely introduced into the margin.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
I myself have heard him talk Eskimo with one of Peary's natives, and he had collated some of his researches into Iranic-Turanian root-forms for the Philological Society.
From The Gates of Chance by Van Tassel Sutphen
