1
as in travelled
to come or be together as friends
you should be careful about whom you sort with
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2
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
Those concerns have caused some park advocates to recommend all parks with a reduction in force be closed until federal funding is sorted.
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Alana Wise, NPR, 4 Oct. 2025
Items are sorted by category and sold in the marketplace, with all proceeds supporting Goodwill’s mission of job training and sustainable employment.
—Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
Everything that exists can thus be sorted into two piles.
—Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
Apollo successfully recognized the change and sorted the clothes accordingly.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2025
However, there are no such hints for players in Season 3, who are sorted into teams at the beginning of their time in Borderland and told where to go for the next match.
—Kayti Burt, Time, 26 Sep. 2025
Chaos is sorted into appreciable story arcs without diluting its overwhelming effect on our heroes.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 24 Sep. 2025
This cool temperature is an incentive that keeps the fish fresher before heading to the processing plant where they are sorted.
—Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Bobba had sorted people with a Social Security number by age and found more than 12 million over 120 years old still listed in the agency’s data.
—Eli Hager, ProPublica, 8 Sep. 2025
Alana Wise, NPR, 4 Oct. 2025
Items are sorted by category and sold in the marketplace, with all proceeds supporting Goodwill’s mission of job training and sustainable employment.
—Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
Everything that exists can thus be sorted into two piles.
—Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
Apollo successfully recognized the change and sorted the clothes accordingly.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2025
However, there are no such hints for players in Season 3, who are sorted into teams at the beginning of their time in Borderland and told where to go for the next match.
—Kayti Burt, Time, 26 Sep. 2025
Chaos is sorted into appreciable story arcs without diluting its overwhelming effect on our heroes.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 24 Sep. 2025
This cool temperature is an incentive that keeps the fish fresher before heading to the processing plant where they are sorted.
—Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Bobba had sorted people with a Social Security number by age and found more than 12 million over 120 years old still listed in the agency’s data.
—Eli Hager, ProPublica, 8 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sorted
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To confirm the match, the team carefully aligned the Hubble and JWST images using 36 stars visible in both datasets as reference points, ensuring that every pixel corresponded to the same spot in the sky, the study noted.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
8 Oct. 2025
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To calculate the scattering amplitude for a collision of n particles, physicists would have to add up many BCFW terms — and each of those terms corresponded to a region of the positive Grassmannian in n dimensions.—
Kevin Hartnett,
Quanta Magazine,
6 Oct. 2025
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If a storm originates in the North Atlantic, central North Pacific, or eastern North Pacific, it is classified as a hurricane.—
Julia Gomez,
USA Today,
14 Oct. 2025
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Marijuana was banned federally in 1970 with the passage of the Controlled Substances Act, which classified marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug.—
Katie Wiseman,
IndyStar,
14 Oct. 2025
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The job cuts have been anticipated for weeks, particularly because NBC News Group, an umbrella division that encompassed both the aforementioned cable networks as well as businesses associated with NBC News, is being cleaved in two, and revenue from cable will now go to feed operations at Versant.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
15 Oct. 2025
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According to the survey, retailers are faced with balancing customer expectations and the need to grow online channels against the rising operational costs associated with returns as well as pressures from external factors such as tariffs.—
Lisa Lockwood,
Footwear News,
15 Oct. 2025
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The latest flare-up coincided with a historic trip by Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi to Pakistan’s rival India, triggering concern in Islamabad.—
Lex Harvey,
CNN Money,
15 Oct. 2025
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Con Tampa in September 2023 and April 2023's Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo, which coincided with costar Daniels' 96th birthday.—
Kate Hogan,
PEOPLE,
14 Oct. 2025
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His work in the run game was particularly notable, taking a run game that ranked 31st in explosive run rate in 2023 to third best in 2024.—
Ted Nguyen,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2025
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This one had a slightly more subtle flavor, so many of our editors ranked this one around the middle of the pack.—
Melinda Salchert,
Southern Living,
11 Oct. 2025
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The pair traveled down to reception together.—
Jay Glennie,
Deadline,
16 Oct. 2025
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The couple, who traveled together alongside their child on a tour bus, approached the outing not just as a professional endeavor but as a family adventure.—
Isabela Raygoza,
Billboard,
16 Oct. 2025
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The famous Stanford Prison Experiment by Zimbardo revealed how quickly people conformed to roles of power or submission, often at the expense of empathy and fairness.—
Mary Crossan,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Columbia, Brown, and the University of Pennsylvania have made deals with the Administration to restore their funding, and other universities have conformed to what the Administration seems to want in order to avoid becoming targets themselves.—
Jeannie Suk Gersen,
New Yorker,
6 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Despite being grouped together with the villains who slashed their way through the ’80s (and, to a lesser extent, the ’90s), Freddy has always been unique.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
9 Oct. 2025
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Called the Marriott Bonvoy Outdoors, the stays are grouped by the types of activities travelers seek, whether that’s hiking near alpine lakes, snorkeling among coral reefs teeming with fish, or getting cozy in a cabin in the woods.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Sorted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sorted. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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