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alphabetize

[al-fuh-bi-tahyz] / ˈæl fə bɪˌtaɪz /
VERB
place in order of a writing system
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The alphabetised filing card offered a linked album number so the record could be found on the shelves.

From BBC • Jan. 28, 2022

My mind had been lovingly gathered, alphabetised, and given back to me, and I didn't know what to do with it.

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2018

Every letter telling her to go back to Australia and leave the Queen alone, every handwritten unified theory, has made its way into a carefully alphabetised file and been kept for posterity.

From The Guardian • Mar. 23, 2017

A year later, Oliver Lawson Dick published the first complete scholarly edition, which alphabetised the Lives and modernised the text.

From The Guardian • Feb. 13, 2017

Books only made it on to the main section when they had been fully digested, and yet still it was crammed and carefully alphabetised.

From The Guardian • Jul. 31, 2010




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