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With her latest book, she took 10 years of her diaries and alphabetized them by the first letter of the first word of each sentence, then cut the book down into the volume published.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2024

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

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

Shelves lining the walls reached from floor to ceiling, each packed full of titles, perfectly alphabetized and separated by genre.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

I made sure the records were alphabetized in their correct bins, and I decorated the white plastic separators between bands.

From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez