sort through
phrasal verb
sorted through; sorting through; sorts through
: to look at things and put them in a particular order especially while searching for something
He sorted through the papers.
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Declutter Immediately After sorting through your items, don’t let the declutter pile linger.
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Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Feb. 2026
The Giants have given themselves plenty of low-risk options to sort through, which is standard operating procedure.
—Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2026
In Good Cop/Bad Cop, Cook and Leighton Meester play an estranged brother and sister, Henry and Lou, who have to sort through their differences after becoming partners in their small Pacific Northwest police force, which is run by their chief-of-police father Big Hank Hickman (Clancy Brown).
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 15 Feb. 2026
Investigators have studied surveillance video, sorted through thousands of tips and submitted DNA and other evidence for laboratory analysis.
—ABC News, 14 Feb. 2026
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Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Feb. 2026
The Giants have given themselves plenty of low-risk options to sort through, which is standard operating procedure.
—Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2026
In Good Cop/Bad Cop, Cook and Leighton Meester play an estranged brother and sister, Henry and Lou, who have to sort through their differences after becoming partners in their small Pacific Northwest police force, which is run by their chief-of-police father Big Hank Hickman (Clancy Brown).
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 15 Feb. 2026
Investigators have studied surveillance video, sorted through thousands of tips and submitted DNA and other evidence for laboratory analysis.
—ABC News, 14 Feb. 2026
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“Sort through.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sort%20through. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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