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"This is categorically not teachers' fault. They have been let down by a system that has said, you're the professionals, off you go and sort out everything", says Crehan.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
Set some time after the events of “WandaVision,” “VisionQuest” will follow Vision as he tries to sort through his understanding of his identity and humanity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
The leaders of the A.I. industries are extremely unpopular and make bad messengers for requesting this sort of access.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026
It acted as a sort of CarPlay for the home, with an iPhone-like experience tailored to life inside and shared among multiple people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
What sort of pointers did he think I could give?
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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“I’ve lived failed policies of all sorts of administrations,” she said.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026
Denmark sorts its garbage into 10 official categories, so that throwing something away becomes a small bureaucratic exam.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
"The Social Reckoning" serves as a sequel of sorts to 2010's "The Social Network," Sorkin's acclaimed film that chronicled Facebook's origins.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
"I worked in the production department, which is logistics, all sorts of paperwork and call sheets, and you manage all of the schedules - that's a very heavy admin-based role," said Williams.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
There were ten total, little cubbies carved out of the very rock of the mountain to make bunk beds of sorts.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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With Treasury Department approval, charities controlled by wealthy people can target groups of at least 5,000, sorted by age, geography or both.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
“The crude side is largely being sorted out,” said York, the energy strategist.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
But the slate of games Sunday sorted out the rest of the postseason bracket.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
"And now we know they were already being sorted and incorporated into the first generation of solid bodies from the very start."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
The tattered oilcompany roadmap had once been taped together but now it was just sorted into leaves and numbered with crayon in the corners for their assembly.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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But posties speaking to us anonymously say parcels are still being prioritised, letters left behind, and time wasted in sorting and dividing mail into first and second class.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
We spent many weekends sorting through all the photo albums and loose photos we’d amassed or inherited, tossing the duplicate pictures and trashing my dad’s slides that were impossible to view easily.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
Collect everything in one bin, send it to a central sorting plant, pull out recyclables and organics by machine, turn the organics into biogas and soil amendment, and burn the rest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
One of its TV commercials has it sorting the user’s emails to prioritize “what’s important,” placing a carpool schedule on the family calendar, ordering school supplies and turning on her stereo for a house party.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
The chronological sorting of memories is an interesting business.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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