stamp collecting
Britishnoun
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another name for philately
Other Word Forms
- stamp collector noun
Example Sentences
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Some compare the stamp collecting to a blessed version of baseball cards.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 4, 2023
This is more humiliating than being turned away from a stamp collecting convention for being too nerdy.
From Salon • Aug. 21, 2023
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 • Jan. 5, 2023
This feeling is echoed by 29-year-old Constanze Dennis, a senior auctioneer at Grosvenor Philatelic Auctions in London, who says stamp collecting ties together many elements she loves.
From The Guardian • Apr. 11, 2020
But the boy before me says playing stick-ball, and the girl before him says stamp collecting, so when the question comes to me, I say sewing.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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