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It’s sort of the first time I’ve had a head writer in my life; usually I’m the one doing that work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
“And right now, sort of a basic contract with women voters in the state has been violated.”
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026
Money sort of worked in the National League—a cool $100 million for each incremental win.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
"I was born in Omagh, we lived in Armagh and my favourite place here was Tyrella beach, I sort of think that's where I grew up," Neill told the BBC in 2012.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
I tell myself that it’s not lying since it is, partly, sort of true.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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“Foreign Tongues” pointedly concludes with Chuck Berry’s “Beautiful Delilah” as an homage of sorts to the forefathers who made the band’s existence possible in the first place.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
It could also be that Graham came to understand what sorts of arguments would most appeal to Trump.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
People were more upset about Tilly than about all sorts of things going on in Washington.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Cities and counties are scrambling to prepare for a potential overhaul of how they pay for all sorts of services, from policing to pothole repairs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
I stood there, fists tight, still breathing like a bear, ready to holler all sorts of things at her like, “Too bad!” or “That’s right! Remember that, big baby!”
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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She carried both pebbles and crystals in her mouth to a wooden platform, where she sorted them into separate groups.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
But days after the foreign medical supplies began entering the country, hospital workers told his daughter Jackie Mendoza that they had sorted it out and would be able to finish treating her father for free.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Last year, the former first minister, herself a former health minister, Eluned Morgan said governance issues had been sorted, but pressure was being maintained to ensure that progress was felt throughout the whole organisation.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
Then the two peer funds are listed, sorted by five-year returns.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026
“Not until I have something sorted out,” my father said.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
Participants completed more than 30,000 sorting trials over a period of 5 to 10 weeks using a smartphone app designed as a game.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
A 67-year-old south Armagh man has been found not guilty of the murder of Newry postal worker Frank Kerr during a 1994 IRA robbery of the city's postal sorting office.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 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
Crew members operating trucks with claws pick up the materials in batches and deposit them on conveyor belts to start the sorting process.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
I kept sorting my cards, but I was listenin’, and Jessica knew I was.
From "Because of Mr. Terupt" by Rob Buyea
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