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[sawrt] / sɔrt /




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He adds: "Putin was playing this sort of very, very, I suppose, traditional Soviet leadership role, but he was doing it in an era of the reality show, MTV and sugar daddies."

From BBC • May 30, 2026

What sort of stocks do best in high inflation?

From Barron's • May 30, 2026

But this race is going to be the sort of toxic mud match in which the candidate who is most unfairly attacked will also likely lose.

From Slate • May 30, 2026

No one ever asks, ‘Why does the wind blow? What is the wind?,’ ” revealing himself as a sort of philosophical poet of the weather.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

But I didn’t right away, and the day sort of flew by with stuff to do.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott




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