alphabetize
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It’s going to be a long list, so you can click on the “Process Name” heading to alphabetize the list for an easier find.
From The Verge ● Jul. 6, 2021
Pause for an embarrassed silence … All my adult life I’ve kept vowing to alphabetize my library, but I never had the time — I was far too busy searching for books I couldn’t find.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2020
“We just want to alphabetize the word honki to make it catchy,” the broadcaster said in a statement Tuesday to The Japan Times.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 29, 2015
He still comes across as someone who might alphabetize his colognes.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2014
To arrange alphabetically; as, to alphabetize a list of words.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
My wife then divides hers into region and alphabetizes them by last name of author, but I am too lazy.
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2020
There’s one that can help me when I dine out and another that alphabetizes my favorite recipes, like an ingredients-only weight loss cookbook.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2016
This, in his view, had multiple advantages, which he alphabetizes as Affiliation, Bonding, Categorization, Discernment, Employment, Freedom and God.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sister Rose is so organized that she alphabetizes her kitchen so that the allspice would be stored next to the ant poison.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bella, 15, arrived with a stack of notebooks alphabetized by subject, pencils sorted by color and a binder that read: “High school — magical years!”
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2023
Then we have a second list that is every single member of Congress, alphabetized by last name.
From Slate ● Jan. 5, 2023
Her spices were alphabetized, her cutlery all had to face the same direction in the drawer and her chocolate chip cookies were somehow all identical.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2022
“I suffer from CDO. That’s OCD, but the letters are alphabetized like they need to be.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2022
I look around at the perfectly aligned end tables and the alphabetized collection of DVDs, but instead of feeling good, all I feel is Lenny.
From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden
Often, the instinct is to just begin: grab a garbage bag, empty the freezer, start wiping baseboards, briefly consider alphabetizing your spices.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2026
People who do well with visual cues, she says, should consider clear containers, labels, color coding and alphabetizing.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2021
It does give one a pleasing orderly sort of feeling, not unlike alphabetizing a library, to take life’s random events and emotions and slot them into helpfully labeled shelves.
From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2019
Marshall said he is in the process of alphabetizing the others, as well as attaching information on the wrench and the company it came from.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 19, 2017
I can’t put everything back together or I’ll find myself alphabetizing all the books and taping the map back together.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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