"crowd-source" meaning in English

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          "text": "While first generation citizen science projects have successfully used the Web to crowd-source environmental data collection, “next generation” citizen science practice networks combine crowd-sourcing, joint sense of purpose, and soft […]",
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          "text": "The[y] also met the new demands within the media landscape for a stream of newly-fashioned celebrities, while each season churning out a new, crowd-sourced popstar that the record label could guarantee would provide a chart-topping hit or two, as the audience were so invested, having spent the last 10 weeks racking up phone bills voting for them.",
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          "ref": "2024 May 4, Mat Gallagher, “I tried Mercedes’ new autonomous driving in busy city streets – it's mind-blowing”, in T3:",
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