SORTING Synonyms: 170 Similar and Opposite Words

sorting

verb

present participle of sort

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 The goal is less time spent assembling and sorting data, and more time deciding what to do with it. — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2026 Organizations should start by sorting workflows into the three types above and keep the needs of the customer in focus. — Katherine Kostereva, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026 Some envelopes move through sorting equipment; others require manual handling. — Lee Moak, New York Daily News, 18 Sep. 2026 Prior to the acquisition, Solutions4Good mainly focused on sorting and grading services. — Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 16 Sep. 2026 Bo French spent Sunday morning sorting our student section by skin color. — Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 14 Sep. 2026 Niutech claims its process can accept low-value plastic waste without requiring the complex washing, sorting and drying processes commonly associated with recycling. — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2026 Humans use algorithms too, not just to solve math problems, but also for tasks like sorting items. — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2026 Originally from Miami, Hirschenson started her career in the mid-1990s opening envelopes and sorting headshots for legendary casting directors Janet Hirshenson and Jane Jenkins. — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2026

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Verb

Soon, crew who had been traveling on the plane stepped in to stabilize it, issuing a mayday call and seeking a place to land.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2026
Two people died and one remains missing after a medical transport helicopter traveling from Catalina Island to the mainland crashed into the Pacific on Wednesday; two others were rescued and stable.

— Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of traveling

Verb

According to objections filed by his lawyers, the pre-sentencing report calculates an offense level corresponding to an advisory sentencing range of 262 to 327 months, or about 22 to 27 years.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 29 Sep. 2026
With no timeline for return, and no corresponding roster move the local media is only left with the information they are given by the team.

— Bobby Burack OutKick, FOXNews.com, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of corresponding

Verb

Below, members of Forbes Technology Council share strategies for classifying large volumes of unstructured data while keeping the manual workload manageable.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Zema has proposed classifying major criminal factions as terrorist organizations.

— Katie Angell Britannica Editors Oct. 2, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of classifying

Verb

Critics condemned Clark for associating with Wallen, who was recorded using a racial slur in 2021 and later apologized.

— Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2026
King’s reaction, and the way the media was reporting on the verdict, revealed an unseemly form of racial stereotyping, associating a particular moral or legal position with being Black.

— Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of associating

Verb

Black officers constitute less than 9% of the force, coinciding with a decline in the city’s Black population.

— Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026
Another standalone film, the Ryan Gosling-starring Starfighter, is due out in May 2027, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of A New Hope.

— Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of coinciding

Verb

Vance stumped in Florida, putting the Republican Party's highest-ranking officials in areas where GOP candidates once expected to have glide paths to victory but are now facing tougher races.

— MICHELLE L. PRICE, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2026
But in July, Saudi Arabia attacked the airport in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, to prevent the landing of an Iranian plane carrying high-ranking Houthi officials.

— Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of ranking

Verb

The Morrison critique — that bottlenecks come from mixing prep, cook and clean activities in the same square foot — is pushing designers to treat the room as a cluster of task zones rather than one open space.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026
Research has shown that mixing ketamine with other substances such as alcohol can be dangerous, potentially leading to problems including respiratory depression, where breathing becomes dangerously slow or shallow.

— Violet Jira, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of mixing

Verb

There are parallels to be drawn in the MAGA crowd pining for the conforming jingoism of the 1950s.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2026
What’s Happening Photobiomodulation, better known as red light therapy, has moved out of dermatology clinics and into body-conforming consumer wearables like masks, belts, wraps and pods.

— Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 28 Sep. 2026