- present participle of sort.
sorting
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But lately, it’s been more about sorting the potential winners from losers in the artificial-intelligence race.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
The team also found that the more the car sorting task was "offloaded" from the prefrontal cortex, the better participants performed a second task at the same time.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
If a data center’s thousands of miles of fiber cables are the roads that the data travels, then Nokia’s products are the trucks and sorting centers that get the data where it needs to go.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
All of a sudden you’re sorting through a snake’s nest of dusty cables and cords, trying to tell a receiver from a hard drive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
This morning I began sorting out an index card file from the office, because it’d fallen over and gotten all mixed up.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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Some of the sortings are heartening: There are more self-made men than born-rich kids in the top 50, and the self-made billionaires’ total wealth is bigger.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2013
She could get a white muslin and a white cambric, which, with different sortings of ribbons, served her for all dress-occasions.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 by Various
These responded to every properly-modulated thought wave passing through them and made the same careful sortings as a human cell absorbing matter from the world.
From Cerebrum by Birmingham, Lloyd
From this year—1851—date the earliest letters preserved in the series of thirty-four boxes which contain the sortings of his vast correspondence.
From The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius
She could get a white muslin and a white cambric, which, with different sortings of ribbons, served her for all dress occasions.
From Household Papers and Stories by Stowe, Harriet Beecher