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sorting

[sawr-ting] / ˈsɔr tɪŋ /




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But lately, it’s been more about sorting the potential winners from losers in the artificial-intelligence race.

From MarketWatch Jul. 21, 2026

Participants completed more than 30,000 sorting trials over a period of 5 to 10 weeks using a smartphone app designed as a game.

From Science Daily Jul. 12, 2026

A 67-year-old south Armagh man has been found not guilty of the murder of Newry postal worker Frank Kerr during a 1994 IRA robbery of the city's postal sorting office.

From BBC Jul. 1, 2026

All of a sudden you’re sorting through a snake’s nest of dusty cables and cords, trying to tell a receiver from a hard drive.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

I felt gratitude for all the people on my team who’d given everything to the work, sorting through handwritten letters, fact-checking my speeches, hopping cross-country flights to prepare for our events.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

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

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

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




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