1
as in traveling
to come or be together as friends
you should be careful about whom you sort with
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as in corresponding
to be in agreement on every point
that doesn't sort with what you said the last time
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as in classifying
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 sorting
Initial roles will focus on low-risk tasks such as sorting, sequencing, and transporting parts along the production line.
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Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 9 Jan. 2026
The company entered the Mexican market in March 2024, opening a national sorting center near Mexico City in September that year.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 9 Jan. 2026
The Tribune reported that Allied Waste's contract with the city called for the company to recover 25% of the waste taken to sorting centers to be recycled rather than placed in landfills — but unlike the earlier contract with Waste Management, Allied faced no penalty for failing to do so.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026
Even better, use a sorting hamper to make laundry day easier.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 1 Jan. 2026
In June, Figure AI, a humanoid-robotics startup, released a sixty-minute video of its prototype humanoid nimbly sorting variously sized parcels, the kind of work that’s easy for humans but challenging for machines.
—James Vincent, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
Many humanoid makers this year are shifting from single-task demonstrations to more complex, multi-step tricks, such as both sorting and folding laundry.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
In metro Detroit, curbside trash will go to a sorting facility where electronics will get picked out and go to a recycling facility.
—Nushrat Rahman, Freep.com, 27 Dec. 2025
Features like automatic speech recognition, language translation, and image sorting all use networks of computers.
—Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
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The Legion Pro Rollable lets players train in conditions closer to tournament play, even while traveling.—
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The Santa Rosa Police Department said in a press release that officers responded to multiple reports of a shooting at the mall and found a 15-year-old boy who had been shot, with the bullet traveling through his body, leaving entry and exit wounds in his upper shoulder and mid-back area.—
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When aftershock data is available, the corresponding maps and charts include earthquakes within 100 miles and seven days of the initial quake.—
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To backers of the cuts, the savings reflect state efforts to blunt Colorado’s affordability crisis, especially as home valuations — and corresponding tax bills — skyrocketed following the pandemic.—
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Unlike an image-classifying neural network, a PINN doesn’t learn by studying external data.—
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Similarly, ride-share services like Uber and Lyft have faced multiple lawsuits for classifying drivers as independent contractors rather than employees, allowing the companies to avoid providing minimum wage, overtime pay and other benefits.—
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Additionally, the dolphins may also be associating with non-dolphin-eating orcas to learn to distinguish their sounds from those of the threatening mammal-eating killer whales.—
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Hellfire Club Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) is the only one still associating himself with the Hellfire Club at Hawkins High School, because the rest of the student body still thinks Eddie Munson (Joseph Quinn) is responsible for killing Vecna’s victims last season.—
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The winners will be announced on February 16 at a gala event at the historic Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, coinciding with the foundation’s think-tank event, The World Forum on the Future of Democracy, AI/Tech and Humankind.—
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Reader's Digest named Route 66 one of the best places to travel in 2026, coinciding with the highway's centennial.—
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The relationship between the government and police forces has long been characterized by mistrust, but high-ranking officials are aware that the continued future of their institutions are tied up with Chavismo’s survival.—
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The indictment also names Maduro's son, two high-ranking Venezuelan officials and an alleged leader of the Tren de Aragua gang.—
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At the sound level, our engineer is a guy who makes all the greatest dance music in the Latin world right now [Josh Gudwin is the records’ mixing engineer and Dale Becker mastering engineer].—
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Naumes uses a similar approach, mixing fresh lemon juice with water.—
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The company is also conducting power-on tests of its first FAA-conforming aircraft.—
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By County Set by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) each year and based on home values, conforming loan limits are typically used to determine maximum loan amounts for many mortgage types.—
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“Sorting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sorting. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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