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  • present participle of sort.
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sorting

[sawr-ting] / ˈsɔr tɪŋ /




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That's why it needs sorting out now because it's such a bad look if it's allowed to fester.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

In any normal industry, that would have put the Raiders at an enormous disadvantage, sorting through everyone else’s rejects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 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

That new renaissance is now increasingly connected to agentic software – or programs capable of automatically completing tasks like managing calendars, booking reservations and sorting through email.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Turkish men work their way through the crowds outside, sorting them into order, checking their reason for being here.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

Some of the sortings are heartening: There are more self-made men than born-rich kids in the top 50, and the self-made billionaires’ total wealth is bigger.

From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2013

From this year—1851—date the earliest letters preserved in the series of thirty-four boxes which contain the sortings of his vast correspondence.

From The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 by Stephen Lucius Gwynn

She could get a white muslin and a white cambric, which, with different sortings of ribbons, served her for all dress-occasions.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 by Various

She could get a white muslin and a white cambric, which, with different sortings of ribbons, served her for all dress occasions.

From Household Papers and Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe

These responded to every properly-modulated thought wave passing through them and made the same careful sortings as a human cell absorbing matter from the world.

From Cerebrum by Lloyd Birmingham




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