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collect around (someone or something)

To gather around someone or something. The kids collected around the clown to watch him make balloon animals.
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collect on (something)

To request or pursue something that has been offered or promised to one. Remember when you offered to watch the baby? Well, I need to collect on that now. It's time to collect on that debt he owes me.
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collect up

To gather items. A noun or pronoun can be used between "collect" and "up." I need someone to help me collect up all of these donations for the food drive. Collect your toys up—it's time for bed!
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cool, calm, and collected

Calm and composed. I was petrified to take the stage, but Alice was cool, calm, and collected, Practicing meditation has helped me to be cool, calm, and collected in times of trouble.
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collect something up

to gather something up. Collect your things up, and let's go. I collected up all my luggage and left.
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cool, calm, and collected

Cliché [of a person] very calm and poised. James did very well in his TV appearances. He stayed cool, calm, and collected. The bad news didn't seem to distress Jane at all. She remained cool, calm, and collected.
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cool, calm, and collected

Calm and composed, self-possessed. For example, No matter what the board decides, you have to appear cool, calm, and collected in front of the stockholders . This alliterative synonym for cool as a cucumber dates from the late 1800s.
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cool, calm, and collected

mod. cool; unabashed. Albert is almost always cool, calm, and collected.
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From Agriculture only Rs 447 million were collected against the target of Rs 838 million, from Finance (tax) only Rs 3,388 million against Rs 8,759 million and from the Board of Revenue Rs 18 million against a target of Rs 21 million were collected.
Govt failed to collect tax, non-tax revenue last year
Earlier this year I talked to David and Ted who had a different approach to how we could present aggregated data and a few months later Collected was born," says Andreas Thorstensson, developer.
Collected.info - A Brand New Service to Keep Track of Your Friends, Interests and Social Media
Use the collected data to make a line graph showing the number of koalas for each round.
Hands-on science (no lab required)
In the 58 skulls collected between 1999 and 2002, exposure to total PCB compounds and to chlordane (a now-banned insecticide) both correlated with low bone mineral density among younger bears.
POPs in Polar Bears: organochlorines affect bone density
collected in the beef cattle barn was identical to that for B.
Bartonella spp. DNA associated with biting flies from California
The total volume of used motor oil collected can vary from year to year.
Crude attempts: although some re-refining is taking place, most collected used motor oil is heading to lower-grade fuel markets
With respect to these benchmarks, another neglected issue arises in the discussion concerning the analysis of the data collected.
Collecting statistics in response to racial profiling Allegations. (Perspective)
Canada's federal privacy law, which became effective January 1, 2002, extends privacy protection to all personal data regardless of when the data was collected.
Safeguarding the world's new currency; privacy requires a willingness and ability to take a different perspective on how data is and should be used. (Cover Story)
The coats collected go to men, women, and children in homeless shelters and battered women centers throughout the city.
NYARM sponsors coat drive
Now that you've found your way to the White House and collected all the letters, put them together to spell the answer to this question.
Can You Find the White House?
This is the opposite of the concern regarding the information collected and demonstrates one of the dilemmas inherent in new information systems.
Physician acceptance of new medical information systems: The Field of Dreams. (Surfing the Information Technology Wave)
Such items have always been collected, Jones notes, but until recently white collectors had a corner on the market.
Collecting our history
In psychoanalytic terms you could talk about collected objects as transitional objects or surrogate objects, like the blanket that stands in for the mother's breast.
Consummate consumption
Passed on June 12, 1991, the Packaging Ordinance requires manufacturers or retailers to "take back" their packaging or ensure that 80 percent of it is collected rather than thrown out.
Recycling rubbish
In 1990, entomologists reported they had isolated the so-called Potosi virus from specimens of Asian tiger mosquitoes collected in Potosi, Mo.
Asian mosquitoes carry dangerous virus
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