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as in travelling
to come or be together as friends
you should be careful about whom you sort with
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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
Regularly clean up your email inbox by unsubscribing from spam or irrelevant newsletters and sorting important emails into folders.
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Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
Properly sorting these materials helps minimize landfill waste.
—George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
Whether sorting goods in a warehouse or assisting customers in a store, this ability to act in real time makes humanoid robots indispensable across industries.
—Greg Ombach, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Even better, use a sorting hamper to make laundry day easier.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 29 Dec. 2024
The Netflix movie, directed by Tyler Perry, tells the story of Adams Earley and her battalion's grit and resourcefulness during the mail sorting assignment.
—Laura A. Bischoff, The Enquirer, 24 Dec. 2024
Rather, the regular exercise of sorting the olfactory world with abstract labels seems to change how the Jahai understand all smells, familiar and otherwise.
—Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
With advanced technology, is sorting your clothes by color a thing of the past?
—Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Dec. 2024
Preserve Clothing Quality Along with sorting by color, Wang recommends doing laundry loads by material and their care instructions.
—Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Dec. 2024
Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
Properly sorting these materials helps minimize landfill waste.
—George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
Whether sorting goods in a warehouse or assisting customers in a store, this ability to act in real time makes humanoid robots indispensable across industries.
—Greg Ombach, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Even better, use a sorting hamper to make laundry day easier.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 29 Dec. 2024
The Netflix movie, directed by Tyler Perry, tells the story of Adams Earley and her battalion's grit and resourcefulness during the mail sorting assignment.
—Laura A. Bischoff, The Enquirer, 24 Dec. 2024
Rather, the regular exercise of sorting the olfactory world with abstract labels seems to change how the Jahai understand all smells, familiar and otherwise.
—Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
With advanced technology, is sorting your clothes by color a thing of the past?
—Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Dec. 2024
Preserve Clothing Quality Along with sorting by color, Wang recommends doing laundry loads by material and their care instructions.
—Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sorting
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The Tampa Bay Times reviewed nearly 600 storm tracks and corresponding sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean basin over the last four decades.Jack Prator, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Dec. 2024
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The value of the gross estate is recalculated, and the corresponding tax liability is adjusted.Ashley Case, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
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Those deaths aren't counted in our statistics, and that's primarily because of the difficulty in classifying those deaths in a disaster.Melody Schreiber, NPR, 13 Dec. 2024
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The National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint Wednesday against the popular Netflix dating show, classifying its stars as employees and accusing the program of several labor violations.Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
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And, coinciding with the holiday, the space station could easily double as Santa's sleigh to innocent eyes.Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 23 Dec. 2024
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The study show that a major volcanic pulse occurred about 30,000 years before the impact, coinciding with at least a 5 degrees cooling of the climate.David Bressan, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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When done correctly, the result should increasingly feel like working 1-1 with an instructor, but without the inconvenience of conforming to the instructor's schedule or competing for time and attention with other students.Ray Ravaglia, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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When faced with differences, individuals are likely to respond in one of three ways—by conforming and agreeing with the other person, seeking their validation or distancing themselves altogether.Mark Travers, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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This involves distinguishing between the data plane, where information is transferred, and the control plane, which governs processes without directly handling the data itself.Taylor Brown, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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Researchers say that their discovery has helped tremendously in distinguishing the theropods of this region, which were poorly known before.Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 1 Jan. 2025
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Enlist the help of a running coach.Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 31 Dec. 2024
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Penn State reaffirmed that belief by dismantling SMU and running the ball well against one of the best run defenses in the country.Justin Williams, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
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By connecting features like billing, single sign-on and data synchronization, these partnerships can deliver a unified experience to the end user.Joshua Siler, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
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This serves as the connecting point between two sides of the barracks that lead Tóth to Erzsébet.Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 8 Jan. 2025
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By halfway through the 2025 ceremony, the internet was pretty unanimous in agreeing that Glaser ate and left no crumbs.Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 6 Jan. 2025
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By then, Penn State was already on its way to the Big Ten, with the Presidents of the league’s Universities agreeing in June 1990 to make the Nittany Lions the conference’s 11th school.Tim Casey, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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“Sorting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sorting. Accessed 13 Jan. 2025.
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