sort through

phrasal verb

sorted through; sorting through; sorts through
: to look at things and put them in a particular order especially while searching for something
He sorted through the papers.

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Study co-author and archaeological scientist Katerina Douka explains that this technique can be used to sort through large numbers of fragments in a way that is impractical for other methods such as DNA sequencing. Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 5 June 2025 Such a donation seems both likely to reveal more than a person’s emails ever could and even harder to sort through and interpret. Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 4 June 2025 But my biggest complaint is that sorting through class options is cumbersome. Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025 When people search for fan fiction on site Archive of Our Own — known among its legions of fans as AO3 — there’s a neverending set of tags the site’s 8 million-and-counting users can sort through to find their perfect fic. Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for sort through

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“Sort through.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sort%20through. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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