SORTED (THROUGH) Synonyms: 55 Similar and Opposite Words

sorted (through)

verb

past tense of sort (through)

as in searched

to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something I sorted through the pile of magazines until I found the article I was looking for

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Another neighbor searched the woods, calling to the children, hearing nothing back.

— Thomas Lake, AJC.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Mary Beth Granbery of Mount Shasta was found Sunday along Cabin Creek after search-and-rescue teams from the Siskiyou and Shasta county sheriff’s offices searched the area, according to the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026

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BlackRock, Carhartt, Ford and Google founded the Alliance in July — the same four companies represented on the panel.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
The site is situated on the island of Lismore and is believed to have been founded by Saint Mo Luóc, an early Christian saint also known as Moluag.

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2026

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As for the plane in question, this is a variant of the venerable F-16 and is a heavily modernized version featuring, among other features, APG-83 Active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
GPTZero also scanned 300 of the roughly 20,000 submissions to the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) and found more than 50 hallucinated citations.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026

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Lojo and a colleague combed through some corridors, looking for clients who might have nestled in remote areas.

— Anand Giridharadas, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2026
Nollet and Anderson collaborated on a similar hairstyle the 2026 Kering Foundation Caring for Women Dinner earlier in September, only here her curls were teased and combed as if she’d slept in them.

— Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2026

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