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as in kind
a number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in common
I prefer jackets with zippers to the sort that close with buttons
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as in person
a member of the human race
he's a decent sort
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as in to travel
to come or be together as friends
you should be careful about whom you sort with
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as in to correspond
to be in agreement on every point
that doesn't sort with what you said the last time
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as in to classify
to arrange or assign according to type
sorted the mail into bills to be paid and junk to be thrown out
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Recent Examples of sort
Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 27 Mar. 2025
Marino’s Hollinger, particularly, becomes an adversary of sorts for Cordelia.
—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2025
Trump administration reportedly rejected simplified tariff plan Trump administration officials recently considered but rejected a plan to simplify the protocols for setting new tariff rates for hundreds of nations by sorting them into three tariff tiers, the Wall Street Journal reported.
—Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2025
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Noun
The idea of nonfiction films so aggressively taking sides marks a departure of sorts.
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Fire is a brutal sorting mechanism, deciding who can actually afford to live in a place and who can’t.
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View Recipe Fruits of all kinds, especially berries, grapes, apples, and citrus, are celebrated by health experts for their anti-inflammatory properties.—
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Maybe not, and hopefully not, to the same extent—hopefully not ever finding themselves in the position of total dependence on Russian energy of any kind.—
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In person, 27-year-old actress Sydney Sweeney is every bit as sweet as her doe-eyed smile and wavy blonde hair suggest.—
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Beom-jun is the person behind the wheel of the car that hits Dong-sik.—
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Family of 4 picks up and moves overseas to travel the world, share more life experiences The Niblett family left their home in England and moved to Bali for the first stop of their year of traveling.—
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If any of the men in black and white lacked motivation, the merest glances to the fans who’d traveled in their droves from the North-east would refuel them in an instant.—
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Note: Most subscribers have some, but not all, of the puzzles that correspond to the following set of solutions for their local newspaper.—
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The scale is finely graduated in kilometers and corresponds to the duration divided by the speed of sound (approximately 1,240 km/h).—
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The county classified fewer than 25,000 homes as attainable in 2024 — compared to nearly 100,000 in 2018.—
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If the rating agencies and regulators classify Bit Bonds as risk-free or near risk-free because the principal is sovereign-backed, these institutions might be able to deploy significant capital into them.—
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The guy who shot that, Louis Powell, one of our South Africans, has been with the show for a very long time.—
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And with no apparent competition for the starting job, the redshirt junior can focus on his own game rather than competing with the guys around him.—
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For the better half of the past decade, the 32-year-old Newburyport, Mass., native has been most closely associated with his role as the world's best babysitter, Steve Harrington, on Netflix's Stranger Things, a character who works at Family Video by day and fights demogorgons by night.—
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Similar to the way Mercury retrograde is often to blame for miscommunication and misunderstandings, Venus retrograde is associated with beauty, love and self-worth.—
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Buck’s career has coincided with the growth of the internet, an increasingly divisive place with the ascent of social media.—
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The move coincides with the Mediterranean country's growing tourism industry, which saw a 4% increase in visitor numbers between 2023 and 2024, with a steady influx of travelers throughout the year.—
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“Sort.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sort. Accessed 7 Apr. 2025.
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