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Recent Examples of assort The alcohol-free month can have assorted positive outcomes beyond simply not drinking alcohol. Lance Eliot, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025 Design: Comprehensive Interface Options The D1 Pro is a complete lock assembly containing interior and exterior escutcheons, a deadbolt latch and strike plate, assorted mounting hardware, a pair of keys, a battery pack, a drilling template, and a user manual. PCMAG, 17 Dec. 2024 But insects remain, as the title suggests, front and center in an inventive, enchanting, if a little unsettling, look at how a bunch of bugs (and one frog) celebrate Christmas that climaxes with Santa, a grasshopper, and assorted other bugs skating on a frozen lake. Keith Phipps, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024 The offbeat setting and the unusual curatorial style, with sculptures assorted around piled boxes of hosiery, acted as a creative means of showing the work of young artists during a time when many New York galleries are closing. The Artnews Awards Jury, ARTnews.com, 4 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for assort
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  • Of the 23 players in the squad that have made 11 or more league appearances this season, nine (almost 40 per cent) can be classified as long-distance internationals.
    Andy Naylor, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
  • How Businesses Can Remain Compliant Governance platforms and compliance partners focus on helping any business, from enterprises to startups, to monitor, identify, classify and ensure that AI is built in accordance to the new EU AI Act.
    Jessica Mendoza, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
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  • Read Next California Estate designed ‘to blend with the river and foothills’ lists near Fresno.
    TJ Macias, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Apr. 2025
  • In Canada, many producers ferment and distill the different grains in the mash bill separately and then blend them post-distillation.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
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  • Last year, Boise was ranked No. 77, and the year prior it was ranked No. 50.
    Ashley Fredde, Idaho Statesman, 20 Apr. 2025
  • California’s capital city was ranked 13th for Easter traditions and was in eighth place overall for weather conditions, according to WalletHub. Which other California cities made the list?
    Kendrick Marshall, Sacbee.com, 19 Apr. 2025
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  • Filtering water, practicing good hygiene, and cleaning cooking implements correlated with avoiding that complaint.
    Wes Siler, Outside Online, 19 Apr. 2025
  • There’s some mapping from the quantum mechanical system to actually a geometrical description in which the distance between the qubits says something about how strongly they’re correlated.
    Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025
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  • The Equipment Leasing and Finance Association’s letter noted that the one-year term of vehicle leases is often the result of state statutes or rules that distinguish a vehicle lease from a rental for sales tax purposes and set the minimum term for a lease at one year.
    Marie Sapirie, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Loveland’s ability to separate from defenders is what distinguished him.
    Adam Jahns, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
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  • Cox and his team ensure each of their rentals (and their corresponding shower curtains) are clean and cared for.
    Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The regulations sought to address transactions that resulted in artificial increases to the basis of property, thereby generating tax benefits without corresponding economic outlay.
    Joshua D. Smeltzer, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • That strategy drew a furious response from some of the city’s employee unions, who distributed posters comparing Villaraigosa to Wisconsin’s then-Gov. Scott Walker, viewed at that time as a strident foe of organized labor.
    David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Device now holds more than 2,500 retail accounts and distributes its beer from Bakersfield to Southern Oregon, according to its website.
    Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 26 Apr. 2025
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  • The march was coordinated by Dennis Hayes, who was a student at the time and is now a board member for EarthDay.org, according to Davies.
    Julia Gomez, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Hough coordinated her look with black platform sandal heels, a statement belt and sunglasses.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 23 Apr. 2025

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“Assort.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assort. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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