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Recent Examples of unsorted
Students were dumping non-recyclable garbage into the recycling bins to the point that, in 2021, the school’s Environmental Outreach Club decided to ask the school to padlock the bins to prevent students from disposing unsorted materials into them.
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Julia Dang, The Mercury News, 7 June 2024
Paper ballots from vote centers countywide were mixed up and stored off-site, unsorted, in thousands of boxes, while recounting scans of ballots required monitors and tech workers.
—The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 1 May 2024
The warehouse outlet sold unsorted items by the pound.
—Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 2 Apr. 2024
The British Library data—an apparently unsorted dump of employees’ passport scans and other personal information—were put up for sale for twenty bitcoins, some eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2023
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Julia Dang, The Mercury News, 7 June 2024
Paper ballots from vote centers countywide were mixed up and stored off-site, unsorted, in thousands of boxes, while recounting scans of ballots required monitors and tech workers.
—The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 1 May 2024
The warehouse outlet sold unsorted items by the pound.
—Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 2 Apr. 2024
The British Library data—an apparently unsorted dump of employees’ passport scans and other personal information—were put up for sale for twenty bitcoins, some eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsorted
Adjective
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Inside almost every home, there is that one drawer (or basket, bin, and/or box) where miscellaneous, old cords live.—
Mary Cornetta,
Better Homes & Gardens,
15 Feb. 2026
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My house often looks less like a cozy home and more like a whirlwind hit it—papers scattered across the floor, random items piled on every surface, and a mountain of miscellaneous clutter teetering on the counter.—
Alexandra Emanuelli,
Southern Living,
13 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Rather than forcing every participant onto the same technical stack, the system creates a universal layer that can interoperate across heterogeneous infrastructures.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
8 Feb. 2026
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The view is not singular, and as such, there’ll be something for everyone to question, especially as Jews and Blacks are often described as a community, when neither is heterogeneous.—
Robert Lloyd,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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He’s talked tough in news conferences about prosecuting child predators, drug traffickers and assorted wrongdoers.—
Dan Sullivan,
Miami Herald,
19 Feb. 2026
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The course made for entertaining theater, resembling almost a snow park of assorted obstacles.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
19 Feb. 2026
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The documents, which are unclassified FBI and Department of Homeland Security intelligence reports, provide disturbing new insights into the growing problem – and also illustrate law enforcement’s struggle to crack down on the decentralized movement.—
Curt Devine,
CNN Money,
10 Feb. 2026
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However, a bipartisan effort was successful last year to compel the Department of Justice to release all unclassified files in its Epstein investigation.—
Reuters
Wire Service,
Dallas Morning News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Surveil your barmates Inside Berghain, the atmosphere is eclectic and electric.—
Jessica Chapel,
Condé Nast Traveler,
15 Feb. 2026
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Emma Watson may have gone straight into major movies, activism and — more recently — a sustainable gin company, while Daniel Radcliffe has charted a successful — and wonderfully eclectic — path on screen and stage.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2026
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But while law enforcement has championed the agreements, immigration attorneys say many arrests are indiscriminate, that the majority of ICE enforcement actions in Oklahoma target immigrants with no criminal charges, and some who are following the law to legally immigrate.—
Ben Fenwick,
Oklahoma Watch,
18 Feb. 2026
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The stock has fallen dramatically since its IPO last summer, swept up in the same indiscriminate selling that has punished anything with a SaaS business model.—
Deirdre Bosa,
CNBC,
17 Feb. 2026
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“Unsorted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsorted. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.
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