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sorting

[sawr-ting] / ˈsɔr tɪŋ /




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Even the shape of the BuzzBallz make it harder to be recycled because they can roll on the conveyor belts at the sorting facilities, said Herriott.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

My brother was saddened by her death, but he did not want to be involved in sorting through her affairs, so I managed it on my own.

From MarketWatch Jul. 17, 2026

The team also found that the more the car sorting task was "offloaded" from the prefrontal cortex, the better participants performed a second task at the same time.

From Science Daily Jul. 12, 2026

If a data center’s thousands of miles of fiber cables are the roads that the data travels, then Nokia’s products are the trucks and sorting centers that get the data where it needs to go.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

“Well have to see about sorting this out later,” she says.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

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 Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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 Birmingham, Lloyd

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 Gwynn, Stephen Lucius




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