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.).
was collating
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past progressiveof collate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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It said it was aware that complaints had been made about this year's event and it was collating feedback.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2023
Once, when I was collating a Gould proof, I had the unsettling thought “What if Eleanor ever loses it?”
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 16, 2015
In the early 1990s, Diané, the teacher of N’Ko at Cairo University, was collating an N’Ko text in a copy shop when he was approached by an employee.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2011
Either he was translating, or correcting the translation of others; or he was collating MSS., or correcting the press.
From The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 by R. W. (Richard William) Church
He had photographic copies of all the Latin texts and he was collating them with the original.
From Cæsar or Nothing by Louis How
