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as in traveled
to come or be together as friends
you should be careful about whom you sort with
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as in corresponded
to be in agreement on every point
that doesn't sort with what you said the last time
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as in classified
to arrange or assign according to type
sorted the mail into bills to be paid and junk to be thrown out
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Recent Examples of sorted
The app provides a list of stations that can be sorted by price, distance or both.
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Jeff A. Chamer
may 6, Charlotte Observer, 6 May 2026
Here are my full reports on the top 64 (honorable mentions are sorted alphabetically).
—Scott Wheeler, New York Times, 4 May 2026
Lawmakers received word of the USDA decision Tuesday morning, Thompson said, and more details will be sorted soon.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 28 Apr. 2026
When entered into the software, the paperwork travels through multiple language models trained by hundreds of questions related to HOAs and becomes sorted into categories and ratings across four pages.
—Amancai Biraben, Oc Register, 24 Apr. 2026
That’s your spring and summer cocktail spots sorted, then.
—Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 23 Apr. 2026
This past January, Tokischa sorted the business side of the album’s release and focused on how to bring it out into the world.
—Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2026
Schmidt, who was research director of the Southwest Biological Institute, sorted stings into four tiers of pain, from the mildly annoying to the intensely painful.
—Adam England, PEOPLE, 8 Apr. 2026
And yet, its adversaries have long sorted themselves into mutually hostile subgroups.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2026
Jeff A. Chamer
may 6, Charlotte Observer, 6 May 2026
Here are my full reports on the top 64 (honorable mentions are sorted alphabetically).
—Scott Wheeler, New York Times, 4 May 2026
Lawmakers received word of the USDA decision Tuesday morning, Thompson said, and more details will be sorted soon.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 28 Apr. 2026
When entered into the software, the paperwork travels through multiple language models trained by hundreds of questions related to HOAs and becomes sorted into categories and ratings across four pages.
—Amancai Biraben, Oc Register, 24 Apr. 2026
That’s your spring and summer cocktail spots sorted, then.
—Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 23 Apr. 2026
This past January, Tokischa sorted the business side of the album’s release and focused on how to bring it out into the world.
—Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2026
Schmidt, who was research director of the Southwest Biological Institute, sorted stings into four tiers of pain, from the mildly annoying to the intensely painful.
—Adam England, PEOPLE, 8 Apr. 2026
And yet, its adversaries have long sorted themselves into mutually hostile subgroups.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sorted
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Shortly before the shooting, Vice President JD Vance's motorcade traveled through the area of the incident.—
Joey Garrison,
USA Today,
5 May 2026
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Like Turner, Church also travelled far beyond the shores of his homeland.—
Sebastian Smee,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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McMahon corresponded with his professors.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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Two greats of 17th-century math, Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat, corresponded about the problem in a famous series of letters.—
Jack Murtagh,
Scientific American,
19 Apr. 2026
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But those numbers capture only a fraction of deaths, which often are classified only by other, more immediate causes, such as bleeding in the brain.—
Lee Hutchinson,
ArsTechnica,
6 May 2026
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The outlier is energy consumption with the average per garment being 1,90 kWh, which is classified as low impact.—
Angela Velasquez,
Footwear News,
6 May 2026
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Winner is responsible for all applicable federal, state and local taxes, if any, as well as any other costs and expenses associated with Prize acceptance and use not specified herein as being provided.—
AJC.com,
AJC.com,
7 May 2026
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Drivers may also experience smoother brake operation because the system avoids the harsh pedal pulsing commonly associated with older anti-lock braking systems.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
7 May 2026
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Luckily for the Knicks, Embiid’s absence coincided with Robinson’s DNP.—
Fiifi Frimpong,
New York Daily News,
6 May 2026
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The Devil Wears Prada 2‘s big weekend opening coincided with the Gala… but Meryl Streep sat it out, purportedly to protest against Bezos.—
Merle Ginsberg,
HollywoodReporter,
5 May 2026
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Their offense began the day ranked fifth in the majors in OPS and eighth in runs per game, despite a bevy of absences, backing Brown’s point.—
Matt Kawahara,
Houston Chronicle,
7 May 2026
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Notre Dame was ranked ahead of UM for five weeks until the teams were flipped in the final rankings, sending the Canes to the playoffs and leaving the Irish out of the playoff field.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
7 May 2026
Verb
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Neighborhood response Feedback from residents, behind the scenes and in public meetings, has been mixed.—
Sofi Zeman
May 2,
Kansas City Star,
2 May 2026
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Designed by the label’s then creative director, Olivier Rousteing, the unorthodox gown was sculpted based on a cast of Tyla’s body, then created out of three different colors of sand mixed with micro-crystal studs, providing extra sparkle down to the tip of her mermaid train.—
Savannah Walsh,
Vanity Fair,
1 May 2026
Verb
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The museum has also allegedly not conformed to the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act (UPMIFA), which requires trustees to manage an endowment so that its spending power is maintained.—
Brian Boucher,
ARTnews.com,
29 Apr. 2026
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According to a person with knowledge of the situation, Foster’s dual roles were reviewed by the National Football League Players Association to make sure the situation conformed with the NFLPA’s regulations governing contract advisors.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
22 Apr. 2026
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“Sorted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sorted. Accessed 10 May. 2026.
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