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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Each year, Walmart sorts through thousands of applications, then invites hundreds of small-business owners and entrepreneurs with shelf-ready products to visit Bentonville for one-on-one, 30-minute meetings with merchants. Serenah McKay, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2025 Something Callihan only recently discovered the true extent of while helping his widow, her grandmother, Shelby Riddle, sort through some things. Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025 Kramer was brought into the yogurt shop murders case in late 2022 to be a part of the investigative team to sort through the evidence and find DNA. Jean Casarez, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025 Founders benefit from exaggeration, corporations from efficiency, and the press from amplification, while the public is left to sort through noise. Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 2 Oct. 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 15 Oct. 2025.

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