sorting

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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

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

After the initial training, people were already good, sorting with at least about 90% accuracy, said Maximilian Riesenhuber, a professor of neuroscience at Georgetown University School of Medicine and co-author of the research.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

But she was still sorting out what she thought about the plane crash.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield