- present participle of sort.
sorting
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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
The latest Russian barrage destroyed storage and logistics facilities - from online retailer warehouses to a postal sorting centre.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
In sorting AI winners from losers, Wall Street has settled on a key differentiator.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Rather than lifting the Magnificent Seven as one, they could ignite a further sorting of what appears to be the winners from losers across the broader AI trade — chips and software included.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 19, 2026
Jobs turned out to be sorting the plastic forks, spoons, straws, and napkins for the cafeteria.
From "Because of Mr. Terupt" by Rob Buyea
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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
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
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