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assort

verb as in arrange or order

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In addition to the dread that, having led up to so much mischief, it would be now more likely than ever to alienate Joe from me if he believed it, I had a further restraining dread that he would not believe it, but would assort it with the fabulous dogs and veal-cutlets as a monstrous invention.

“Customers will buy many of one type of item, but assort the variety,” says Kennedy Watson, who suggests buying multiple colors of beautifully made, versatile items like candles or bath products.

Homoeologous genes are sometimes called ‘alloalleles’ to emphasize their role as alternate forms of a gene, but since homoeologues are unlinked and assort independently, we do not use this terminology.

From Nature

We should follow, men say, the example of the bees, who flit about and cull the flowers that are suitable for producing honey, and then arrange and assort in their cells all that they have brought in; these bees, as our Vergil says,

From Time

We could try to assort that bunch top-to-bottom, from the front of the train to the caboose.

From Forbes

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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