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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
This past January, Tokischa sorted the business side of the album’s release and focused on how to bring it out into the world.
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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
Items below the benchmark are sorted into a different area mainly for incineration or landfill, which is where textile pollution wreaks its most damage.
—Tian MacLeod Ji, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2026
All restaurants and food trucks listed below have been sorted by city.
—Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2026
Urea fertilizer is sorted at a dock before being loaded onto ships for export at a port in Shandong province, China, on Thursday.
—Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 1 Apr. 2026
Discover the best Mango finds below—and consider your spring wardrobe instantly sorted.
—Laura Jackson, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2026
Rockies games on national TV The national TV partners are sorted alphabetically below, with the main days for MLB action listed.
—Jenny Catlin, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
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
Items below the benchmark are sorted into a different area mainly for incineration or landfill, which is where textile pollution wreaks its most damage.
—Tian MacLeod Ji, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2026
All restaurants and food trucks listed below have been sorted by city.
—Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2026
Urea fertilizer is sorted at a dock before being loaded onto ships for export at a port in Shandong province, China, on Thursday.
—Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 1 Apr. 2026
Discover the best Mango finds below—and consider your spring wardrobe instantly sorted.
—Laura Jackson, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2026
Rockies games on national TV The national TV partners are sorted alphabetically below, with the main days for MLB action listed.
—Jenny Catlin, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sorted
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During its 10-day excursion, the four-person crew traveled farther from Earth than any other humans — as well as witnessed a rare solar eclipse from deep space and observed a 600-mile-wide crater on the moon’s surface.—
Maura Fox,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Apr. 2026
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Koch and her fellow Artemis II crew members — NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen — traveled 694,481 miles, making their lunar flyby the farthest humans have ever traveled from Earth.—
Francie Ebert,
NBC news,
13 Apr. 2026
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That’s partially why Hickman was inspired to try to find a bee that corresponded with every letter in the alphabet.—
Liz Ohanesian,
Oc Register,
14 Apr. 2026
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That year corresponded with the large-scale introduction of credit cards and with high inflation.—
George Liebmann,
Baltimore Sun,
11 Apr. 2026
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People who had more than about 4% of their total activity classified as vigorous had substantially lower risks of developing these conditions compared with people who had no vigorous activity at all.—
Katia Hetter,
CNN Money,
15 Apr. 2026
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Under California law, e-bikes and e-motorcycles are separately classified by motor power, top speed and whether the bike has working pedals.—
Sandra McDonald,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2026
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The cuts also include 53 non-teaching positions associated with schools that are closing in the 2026-27 school year, district spokesman John Sullivan said.—
Scott Travis,
Sun Sentinel,
16 Apr. 2026
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Morgan’s partner confirmed the Expedition had no markings or lights to indicate they were associated with law enforcement.—
Mara H. Gottfried,
Twin Cities,
16 Apr. 2026
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For families During my stay, which coincided with spring break, most guests had children with them.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
15 Apr. 2026
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And so have the Twins as a team, something which coincided with Shelton moving Buxton up in the lineup.—
Betsy Helfand,
Twin Cities,
15 Apr. 2026
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Lowe, the fifth-longest-serving Ray with seven years and 57 days of service time, left ranked among the franchise leaders in numerous categories including homers (157, third); runs (415, sixth); extra-base hits (295, sixth) and doubles (126, eighth).—
Marc Topkin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
17 Apr. 2026
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Ahead of Coachella’s second weekend, then, here’s a list, ranked from worst to best, of every hit that Bieber has put inside the Top 10 of Billboard’s flagship singles chart, the Hot 100.—
Mikael Wood,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Apr. 2026
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When mixed with compost or fertilizer, flaxseeds can help retain moisture for your pots and containers.—
Kirsten Nunez,
Martha Stewart,
10 Apr. 2026
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Traders showed little initial reaction to the report, with stock market futures slightly higher and Treasury yields mixed.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
10 Apr. 2026
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Sharpe said traditionally French cuisine has been looked at as the standard, and chefs have conformed to fit that standard.—
Raisa Habersham,
Miami Herald,
17 Feb. 2026
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Martin highlighted the findings, which mostly conformed to his expectations but still surprised him in the magnitude of the angst over the work situationship.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Sorted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sorted. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.
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