sorted

past tense of sort
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Recent Examples of sorted The poly bag waste is sorted again, shredded and processed before being shipped to a licensed importer. — Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2026 Whatever electronic gremlins the first models came out with have long been sorted. — New Atlas, 2 Oct. 2026 Every piece of mail, document, invitation, receipt, and other paper stops here before eventually getting sorted into its rightful place. — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Sep. 2026 There are plenty of real estate scenarios to walk through that have yet to be sorted. — Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2026 At the pupae stage, they can be easily sorted into piles of males and females. — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2026 The result, after 20-some years of maps built that way, is a picture of the country that looks more neatly sorted than the electorate actually is. — Andrew Latham, The Conversation, 21 Sep. 2026 Inevitably, much of that knowledge was still undigested and poorly sorted; as a result the planet, viewed from Europe, must have seemed a rather impressionistic and formless place. — Ian Tattersall, The New York Review of Books, 19 Sep. 2026 The majority of the time in my life, other more pressing and practical life matters present themselves to be sorted, managed, resolved, etc. — Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sorted
Verb
  • Chinese, Russian troops train together The PLA contingent traveled to Russia by road, rail and air and participated in the preparatory phase alongside forces from Russia, Belarus, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia and Tajikistan.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2026
  • The family traveled around the country preaching and soliciting donations, and when Gortner was 16, his father absconded with what was reported to be $3 million in donations.
    — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 4 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • One signal indicated a general emergency, while another corresponded to unlawful interference or a hijacking situation.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026
  • The timing of the payments corresponded with unusual shifts in Netanyahu’s policies.
    — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Treasurer Erick Russell has also pushed changes designed to prevent active bank accounts from being wrongly classified as abandoned.
    — Mark Lewyn, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The Jackson County Medical Examiner’s Office reviewed the man’s death and classified it as a homicide, Becchina said.
    — Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Frequently, the drug and location are irrelevant to the price — raising questions about the roles of insurers and higher prices associated with popular plans.
    — Bob Herman, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026
  • The leader is associated with social mobility and poverty reduction in Brazil, which was fueled by a booming economy during his first two terms, from 2003 to 2010.
    — Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The episode coincided with the NFT market’s colonization of cultural assets and collectibles and the rise of its accompanying online culture.
    — Simon Denny, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • This development has coincided with rapid institutional adoption of tokenization.
    — Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The four-star recruit was ranked among the top 300 players nationally by various outlets.
    — PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Los Angeles ranked 32 of 500, with the annual water bill estimated at $952.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The designer footwear was mixed with something akin to a clog, since the platform base was wooden.
    — Amina Ayoud, Footwear News, 4 Oct. 2026
  • And that, mixed with being a woman director in Hollywood, is intense.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 3 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • As one of the three colorways that conformed with the NBA’s uniform regulations, the sneaker is rendered primarily in white.
    — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2026
  • That dwarfed the offerings of Morocco, which had no existing stadiums that conformed to tournament specifications and would need to spend upwards of $15 billion to prepare for a World Cup.
    — Kevin Baxter Follow June 7, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2026

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“Sorted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sorted. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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