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Hundreds of volunteers hurried through the packed parking lot next to Bogota's largest stadium, forming human chains to pass donated water bottles, food provisions, sanitary products and bedding to the sorting area.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Two-tenths of a percent is a rounding error on a rounding error, and I wouldn’t bet against a stadium full of Iraqis and Norwegians sorting one another more finely to clear it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
My brother was saddened by her death, but he did not want to be involved in sorting through her affairs, so I managed it on my own.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Early in learning, the sorting task primarily activated the prefrontal cortex, the region responsible for executive functions such as planning, reasoning, and conscious decision-making.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
But as she was sorting through her not-very-many dresses and deciding that the note to strike should be serious and quiet, her letter box clattered.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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
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
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
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
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
