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Recent Examples of sort
Noun
The fest also serves as a campus of sorts for some 2,000 ltalian film students from more than 20 universities. Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 16 June 2025 For Zegler, making her British stage debut, Evita must seem like a haven of sorts after her travails with the controversy that grew around Snow White, where her casting was subject to racist attacks on social media about her Colombian heritage. Sarah Crompton, Vogue, 16 June 2025
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Notion Mail includes features for sorting, labeling, and filtering emails and tools for drafting replies using AI to help. Ellen Sheng, CNBC, 10 June 2025 Keep projects and clients visually sorted at a glance. Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 10 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for sort
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sort
Noun
  • Weapons of any kind, including those legally permitted, should not be brought to events.
    Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 June 2025
  • The move marks the first time a major Hollywood studio has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit of this kind.
    Regina Cho, VIBE.com, 11 June 2025
Noun
  • This contrast shows how the same event can feel empowering to one person and limiting to another. 2.
    IESE Business School, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
  • In total, 22 children and one elderly person have been treated and 10 of the patients were still hospitalized as of Wednesday, according to officials in the Hauts-de-France region.
    Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Usually, all these guys are practicing before the set in the evening.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2025
  • While the fan messages did make the guys laugh, a lot of it was thanks to their ribbing of each other and themselves.
    Anna Chan, Billboard, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Having earned his stripes as a loyalist to this President, he's been rewarded with this lifetime nomination.
    Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 25 June 2025
  • Looking closer, this busy bee did not have any of the characteristic yellow stripes and was somewhat larger than the typical bumble bee.
    Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2025
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  • Six men were inside a 2018 GMC Sierra pickup truck at the time of the shooting.
    Racquel Bazos, Baltimore Sun, 1 July 2025
  • While conditions for the athletes were atop the concern list, Carlos Alcaraz, the two-time defending men’s singles champion, made sure patrons at Centre Court were also taken care of in the heat.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • Our booksellers read voraciously across all genres and can find the perfect read for anyone who walks through our door.
    American Booksellers Association, USA Today, 19 June 2025
  • Performances will range from jazz and soul to contemporary genres.
    Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • Thus, scientists are looking at its life span, possible numbers in the ocean and predators.
    Ashley Mackin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2025
  • Burney, a Baltimore native who’s about to head out on an East Coast book tour, succeeds at crafting a work that’s as much a poignant reflection on his life as an ethnomusical study.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • Miranda is so full of possibility and adventure and what’s going to come next, and Ada is trying so hard to be that way and to fill the deep well of her sadness and her loneliness and her bereavement with things like the Temperance movement.
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 23 June 2025
  • There are big notes of sweet fruit, caramelized brown sugar, black pepper, rum raisin, and cinnamon leading things off over a faint wisp of smoldering campfire which lies just underneath.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 22 June 2025

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“Sort.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sort. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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