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  • present participle of sort.
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sorting

[sawr-ting] / ˈsɔr tɪŋ /




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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

Your close relationship with your sister will be a big advantage when sorting through your mother’s estate.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026

It said they were agricultural workers sorting vegetables, with the head of the Kharkiv region adding that four were women.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Bossy’s direction raises the clamorous volume instead of sorting out the disordered structure or digging into the unexamined silences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

All day I slaved away, scrubbing down her porch, sorting buttons, picking dead flies from her screen door.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

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

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

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




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