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Recent Examples of alphabetize
Five small tasks: Clearing trash from your purse, putting away a load of towels, emptying the dish strainer, picking up dog or baby toys from the floor, alphabetizing the spice jars.
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Mary Cornetta,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Oct. 2025
Every manilla envelope, stuffed to the brim with photo copies, was meticulously alphabetized.
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Rance Collins,
IndieWire,
2 Aug. 2025
Using fewer bits was thought to require more steps—like alphabetizing your books by swapping them one by one on the shelf instead of pulling them all out and reshelving them.
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Max Springer,
Scientific American,
27 June 2025
Perhaps most radical is Barnett’s decision to alphabetize contributors by first names.
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Byron Armstrong,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
The seating was carefully managed, based on categories like reigning monarchs, heads of state and heads of government, and further alphabetized within those groups.
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Alan Yuhas,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2025
There are some who seem to have the innate ability to keep their spices alphabetized, their clothes separated by color and season, and power cords neatly wound all in one place.
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Allie Volpe,
Vox,
26 Mar. 2025
However, law firm websites typically alphabetize by last name.
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Peter Boyd,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
Beyond those bins sat aisle after aisle of records, alphabetized and by genre.
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David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
20 Dec. 2024
Mary Cornetta,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Oct. 2025
Every manilla envelope, stuffed to the brim with photo copies, was meticulously alphabetized.
—
Rance Collins,
IndieWire,
2 Aug. 2025
Using fewer bits was thought to require more steps—like alphabetizing your books by swapping them one by one on the shelf instead of pulling them all out and reshelving them.
—
Max Springer,
Scientific American,
27 June 2025
Perhaps most radical is Barnett’s decision to alphabetize contributors by first names.
—
Byron Armstrong,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
The seating was carefully managed, based on categories like reigning monarchs, heads of state and heads of government, and further alphabetized within those groups.
—
Alan Yuhas,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2025
There are some who seem to have the innate ability to keep their spices alphabetized, their clothes separated by color and season, and power cords neatly wound all in one place.
—
Allie Volpe,
Vox,
26 Mar. 2025
However, law firm websites typically alphabetize by last name.
—
Peter Boyd,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
Beyond those bins sat aisle after aisle of records, alphabetized and by genre.
—
David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
20 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for alphabetize
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The verdict comes a year after Pitt first filed his request for depositions last June, according to court records reviewed by USA TODAY.
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The lawsuit was filed in Jackson County Circuit Court on Thursday on behalf of Abby Grizzell, of Lee’s Summit, who attorneys said was bowled over and trampled by a group of youths on June 6.
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University of Copenhagen paleoproteomics researcher Enrico Cappellini, also a co-author of the study, hopes the team will sequence proteins from other South African hominins, as well as species from Kenya, Tanzania, and Ethiopia in east Africa.
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SecureBio can sequence a genome in five days, but the genetic analysis can reveal much more information, such as a virus’s variant or lineage.
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Amid rising travel costs, Nguyen prioritizes travel in her budget and cuts expenses elsewhere.
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The lawsuit also accuses emergency responders and dispatchers of mishandling the aftermath by prioritizing treatment and transport of the deputy over the couple, who were more seriously injured, delaying critical medical care.
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Their fix is to let the same model that does the reasoning also curate the knowledge, stored as human-readable notes and organized hierarchically with provenance and a lifecycle so stale plays decay rather than calcify.
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Where previous generations of artists organized themselves into schools, collectives, and cooperatives, their future counterparts will work alone or, if together, then polyphonously, their different voices kept distinctly identifiable, like family members at a Thanksgiving dinner discussion.
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Nearly four-fifths of respondents said that gas prices present some sort of strain, with 34% categorizing it as a major strain and 44% calling it a minor strain.
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History has since categorized Watergate as a defining example of government accountability and congressional oversight of presidential power.
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“Alphabetize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alphabetize. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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