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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The primary issue is that those problems won’t be covered up by everything the roster is sorting through elsewhere.
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Alec Lewis, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Good thing Oliver is there to help visitors sort through it all.
—Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 30 Sep. 2025
Because many dark taxa are absent from training data sets, even the most advanced image-recognition models work best as triage—rapidly sorting through familiar taxa and flagging likely new discoveries for human taxonomists to investigate.
—Marion Renault, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2025
To find those powerful antibodies, scientists sort through B cells, a type of white blood cell that makes millions of different antibodies against a particular pathogen.
—Tara Haelle, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2025
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Alec Lewis, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Good thing Oliver is there to help visitors sort through it all.
—Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 30 Sep. 2025
Because many dark taxa are absent from training data sets, even the most advanced image-recognition models work best as triage—rapidly sorting through familiar taxa and flagging likely new discoveries for human taxonomists to investigate.
—Marion Renault, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2025
To find those powerful antibodies, scientists sort through B cells, a type of white blood cell that makes millions of different antibodies against a particular pathogen.
—Tara Haelle, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for sort through
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“Sort through.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sort%20through. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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