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as in traveling
to come or be together as friends
you should be careful about whom you sort with
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2
as in corresponding
to be in agreement on every point
that doesn't sort with what you said the last time
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as in classifying
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 sorting
In addition to sorting laundry by color, keep the material in mind.
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Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 4 Mar. 2026
After trucks dump materials, two conveyors transport items through a sorting process where nonrecyclable materials are removed from the line.
—Megan Vaz, Sun Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2026
For instance, multilayer plastic bags — those that hold snack chips, candy and coffee beans — are the scourge of municipal garbage haulers because they cannot be recycled, and if put in the blue bins, can damage mechanical sorting machines.
—Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2026
Earlier theoretical work showed that combining spatial mode sorting with long-baseline interferometry could reach the true quantum limit for resolving two stars.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 21 Feb. 2026
The culprit has been an increasingly popular feeling among investors that AI is sorting tech players into winners and losers.
—Tristan Bove, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2026
The team developed a penchant for sorting itself out through the regular season, then rising to the occasion in the playoffs.
—Jordan Bianchi, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
Five minutes of sorting your meds into an efficient pill organizer saves space for far more important things (like an extra pair of shoes).
—Carin Ryan, Travel + Leisure, 11 Feb. 2026
The largest cost of sorting the duplication out would be the human cost, Williams said.
—Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 9 Feb. 2026
Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 4 Mar. 2026
After trucks dump materials, two conveyors transport items through a sorting process where nonrecyclable materials are removed from the line.
—Megan Vaz, Sun Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2026
For instance, multilayer plastic bags — those that hold snack chips, candy and coffee beans — are the scourge of municipal garbage haulers because they cannot be recycled, and if put in the blue bins, can damage mechanical sorting machines.
—Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2026
Earlier theoretical work showed that combining spatial mode sorting with long-baseline interferometry could reach the true quantum limit for resolving two stars.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 21 Feb. 2026
The culprit has been an increasingly popular feeling among investors that AI is sorting tech players into winners and losers.
—Tristan Bove, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2026
The team developed a penchant for sorting itself out through the regular season, then rising to the occasion in the playoffs.
—Jordan Bianchi, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
Five minutes of sorting your meds into an efficient pill organizer saves space for far more important things (like an extra pair of shoes).
—Carin Ryan, Travel + Leisure, 11 Feb. 2026
The largest cost of sorting the duplication out would be the human cost, Williams said.
—Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 9 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sorting
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In our roundup of travel news this week, why social bathhouses are a hot new wellness trend, the Portuguese chicken shop Chinese tourists are traveling thousands of miles to visit, plus travel chaos in the Middle East.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
7 Mar. 2026
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At a Sheetz gas station equipped with high-resolution cameras, authorities spotted a car matching Shelia Eddy’s vehicle passing through around midnight—traveling in the direction of Blacksville.—
Isabella Wandermurem,
Time,
6 Mar. 2026
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Futures on China’s 30-year and 10-year bonds dropped the most since late December on Monday, while corresponding cash yields climbed.—
Bloomberg News,
Bloomberg,
9 Mar. 2026
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The Music Mania festival, corresponding to the Sweet 16 NCAA Men’s Basketball games being played at SAP Center in San Jose, was listed as being canceled on its ticketing website as of Monday.—
Jim Harrington,
Mercury News,
9 Mar. 2026
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The industry says classifying EWA as a loan could have the perverse effect of sending consumers back to higher-cost, risky alternatives such as payday loans or pawn shops by imposing unnecessary restrictions, such as mandatory fees, interest charges and credit reporting requirements.—
Cheryl Winokur Munk,
CNBC,
27 Feb. 2026
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His team uses taxonomy — the science of naming and classifying species — to formalize new names from field notes.—
Hanna Wickes,
Charlotte Observer,
27 Feb. 2026
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But for the most part, your brain gets used to it despite associating the aesthetic with chaos and momentum.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
17 Feb. 2026
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This rhetoric is employed to justify the state taking life, by associating the dead with national villainy.—
Ta-Nehisi Coates,
Vanity Fair,
26 Jan. 2026
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The team found a major levoglucosan peak centered around 1128 CE, coinciding with a similar peak recorded from the Schwarzboden mire peat core, another important reservoir of atmospheric history sampled about 12 miles southeast of Weißseespitze.—
Nidhi Sharma,
Popular Science,
13 Mar. 2026
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The rise in police overtime costs has coinciding with a decline in staffing.—
Devan Patel,
Mercury News,
11 Mar. 2026
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But high-ranking officials have offered statements dripping with obscurity.—
Danya Gainor,
CNN Money,
7 Mar. 2026
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Chávez earned his ticket to the Paralympics last November after skiing fast enough at a competition in Norway to place him at the ranking necessary to directly qualify for the Winter Games in Milan.—
Nicole Acevedo,
NBC news,
7 Mar. 2026
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The restaurant is mixing Dorotea Gin with Mexican corn liqueur, Oaxacan chile pasilla liqueur, Strega Liqueur, tangelo and lime.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
9 Mar. 2026
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As your host, Lizzie Burder makes for very enjoyable company, deftly mixing child-like enthusiasm with just enough frantic dread to convince you that this whole operation could turn dangerous at any moment.—
Rob Hubbard,
Twin Cities,
7 Mar. 2026
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Researchers have developed new hair-thin actuator fiber that can pave way to build safer soft robots and body-conforming wearable devices designed to interact closely with people.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Mar. 2026
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Exile is a state of being barred from a homeland—of being forced to live in a foreign world as punishment for not conforming.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Feb. 2026
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“Sorting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sorting. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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