stamp collecting
Britishnoun
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- stamp collector noun
Example Sentences
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But new surveillance technologies must not lead to what Van Kerkhove calls “a stamp collecting exercise”: simply identifying the hundreds of thousands of viruses in wild and captive animals.
From Science Magazine
Rae’s love of stamp collecting was instilled in her as a child, thanks to her grandparents.
From The Guardian
According to one history of the project, “It was considered to be weak science, akin to stamp collecting.”
From The Guardian
I started telling her about stamp collecting and the business that had brought me to Tel Aviv, for which I would need to part from her in another hour and forty minutes.
From The New Yorker
Biology has certainly advanced to a different realm since physicist Ernest Rutherford’s famous quip that science was either physics or stamp collecting.
From Nature
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