Recreating a Dictionary from an IEnumerable

I have a method that returns an IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<string, ArrayList>>, but some of the callers require the result of the method to be a dictionary. How can I convert the IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<string, ArrayList>> into a Dictionary<string, ArrayList> so that I can use TryGetValue?

method:

public IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<string, ArrayList>> GetComponents()
{
  // ...
  yield return new KeyValuePair<string, ArrayList>(t.Name, controlInformation);
}

caller:

Dictionary<string, ArrayList> actual = target.GetComponents();
actual.ContainsKey("something");

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