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alphabetize

[al-fuh-bi-tahyz] / ˈæl fə bɪˌtaɪz /
VERB
place in order of a writing system
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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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