sort through

verb

sorted through; sorting through; sorts through
Synonyms of sort throughnext
: 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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When the two find one another at the party and try to sort through their issues, an unexpected figure appears before them in the garden. Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 21 July 2026 The survey responses suggest that within today’s Republican coalition, climate and energy preferences are being sorted through different priorities. Mayank Kejriwal, The Conversation, 21 July 2026 Instead of manually sorting through every document or taking notes from scratch, GitMind can analyze PDFs, YouTube links, audio files, images, websites, and text to create structured visual outputs in seconds. Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 21 July 2026 But the smoke of loneliness drifts through the song’s 16 minutes, too; this is the sound of being left to sort through your tangle of feelings, of maybe not quite knowing how to do it. Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 20 July 2026 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 25 Jul. 2026.

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