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.).
has been collating
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present perfect progressiveof collate (3rd person singular).present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Cicek Tahaoglu works in Istanbul and has been collating media reports on violence against women since 2011 for a news website called Bianet, partly because official statistics are unreliable.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2015
Briceño-León, meanwhile, has been collating and analyzing numbers since 2005, the year authorities simply stopped providing their own.
From Time ● Sep. 25, 2012
