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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Even on Tuesday morning, mere days before the Vikings’ 195-or-so-person traveling party arrives, Martin was sorting through specifics.
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Alec Lewis, New York Times, 24 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
At the museum itself, visitors can sort through an epic amount of transit-and-railroad books and memorabilia.
—Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2025
Doctors would no longer be forced to sort through hundreds of studies manually.
—Anna Forsythe, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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Alec Lewis, New York Times, 24 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
At the museum itself, visitors can sort through an epic amount of transit-and-railroad books and memorabilia.
—Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2025
Doctors would no longer be forced to sort through hundreds of studies manually.
—Anna Forsythe, Forbes.com, 18 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 29 Sep. 2025.
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