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When disposable vape cartridges are put in garbage or recycling bins, they can be crushed by garbage trucks and sorting equipment at waste facilities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

Look at the internet or railroads, another argued: Each was marked by a wave of euphoria, then the eventual sorting of the winners and losers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

The event features hundreds of teams competing in events such as running and football as well as less sporty challenges like box opening and sorting library books.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

Robots sorting parcels and serving fried chicken enthralled visitors at a robotics expo in Beijing on Wednesday, where hundreds of companies set out their pitches for a future labour market transformed by artificial intelligence.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

So I sighed, resigned, as Mr. Jordan started sorting us into new clusters.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi

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

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

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