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[sawrt] / sɔrt /
NOUN
type, variety
Synonyms
STRONGEST
array character description kind lot nature number quality set style
STRONG
batch battery body brand breed category class clutch denomination family genus group ilk likes make order parcel race species stamp stripe suite
WEAK
likes of
Antonyms
STRONG
individual one
VERB
place in order
Synonyms
STRONGEST
arrange catalogue categorize comb cull separate sift
STRONG
assort choose class classify distribute divide file grade group order peg pick pigeonhole rank riddle screen select systematize tab typecast winnow
WEAK
button down put down as put down for put in order put in shape put to rights size up
Antonyms
STRONG
collect disarrange disorder disorganize gather hold keep maintain mix up refuse reject scatter

Example Sentences

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"Everything has to have its own necessity for being - even the frothiest sort of fun movie," Streep says.

From BBC • May 1, 2026

Ruskin’s ill-tempered insistence that drawing is an exercise of virtue was alien to Church’s character, but the same conjunction of extreme naturalism and a sort of vague pantheism is always present.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

The costs borne by all parties will eventually force them to come to “an agreement that sort of wraps the trade war and the Iran war,” the money manager says.

From MarketWatch • May 1, 2026

The US mission is "not of the same nature as the one we established... it comes as a sort of complement", Barrot said on a visit to the Gulf.

From Barron's • May 1, 2026

Jonah heard the noise first, a sort of grinding that seemed to be coming from just the other side of the rock wall.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix