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sorting

[sawr-ting] / ˈsɔr tɪŋ /




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Investors have grown more discerning as interest rates rise and the market continues the long, complex and often hair-raising task of sorting artificial-intelligence winners from losers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

The Alaska Supreme Court did a decent job, though, of sorting this out.

From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2026

Here’s a cheat sheet for sorting it all out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

"It just seems to be such a mess with things that need sorting out," Bennett said.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

She’s in her room sorting laundry into piles.

From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks

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


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