alphabetized

past tense of alphabetize

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  • The ruling was issued as part of a class-action lawsuit filed by noncitizens challenging ICE’s recent practice of making arrests at immigration courthouses and detaining people for extended periods in facilities designed for short-term holds.
    Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2026
  • The trial court dismissed the petition as time-barred on May 1, 2025, concluding it was filed one day past the 365-day jurisdictional deadline.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 24 June 2026
Verb
  • Volunteers organized the supplies — toothbrushes, baby wipes, instant soup and many other items — and loaded them into boxes, drawing hearts on the outside with magic marker.
    David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
  • Pastor Jeremy Tuck of Connection Point Church organized a free gas giveaway Sunday in Forest Park, handing out $20 gas cards to the first 250 drivers at a local RaceTrac station.
    Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 29 June 2026
Verb
  • Forced to make tough spending choices, many Americans prioritized their car payment over the mortgage, weighing the urgent need for personal transportation—work and groceries, church and medical appointments—against the relatively slow-moving process of home foreclosure.
    Paige Williams, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • The agency has historically prioritized places with the greatest population and risk, which makes sense due to budget constraints, Berginnis said, but also leaves about two-thirds of the country's streams, rivers and coastlines unmapped.
    CBS News, CBS News, 22 June 2026
Verb
  • History has since categorized Watergate as a defining example of government accountability and congressional oversight of presidential power.
    Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026
  • Supermassive black holes that are consuming matter are categorized as active, whereas supermassive black holes that do not consume matter are known as inactive or quiescent.
    Mary Ogborn, The Conversation, 25 June 2026
Verb
  • About 1 million people globally have sequenced their genomes, and realistically about 1 billion people need to sequence their genomes for models to function more meaningfully.
    Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2025
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“Alphabetized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alphabetized. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.

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