sorted (through)

verb

past tense of sort (through)
as in searched
to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something I sorted through the pile of magazines until I found the article I was looking for

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sorted (through)
  1. searched
  2. found
  3. scanned
  4. combed
Verb
  • Firefighters searched the building while attacking the flames, evacuating residents in areas directly threatened by the fire.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2026
  • When Nottingham Forest searched for another wing-back, the club and head coach Oliver Glasner wanted someone similar to Daniel Munoz.
    — Paul Taylor, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of searched
Verb
  • One of the Constitution’s founding purposes was to prevent change.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Neal Street Productions, a Banijay Entertainment company, was founded in 2003; its founders are Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris and Caro Newling.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of found
Verb
  • The holotype was one of the first specimens to be scanned once the lab was up and running in late 2024.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The teachers scanned their work and used AI to analyze how their handwriting could improve.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of scanned
Verb
  • Political campaigns have always combed a candidate’s old statements and clips for material to be used against them.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 9 Sep. 2026
  • When several doctoral students combed through the sequencing results, there was only one way to explain why so many extra gene copies were scattered across the whole of the potamo genome.
    — Carrie Arnold Contributing, Quanta Magazine, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of combed
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