alphabetize

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Recent Examples of alphabetize There are some who seem to have the innate ability to keep their spices alphabetized, their clothes separated by color and season, and power cords neatly wound all in one place. Allie Volpe, Vox, 26 Mar. 2025 However, law firm websites typically alphabetize by last name. Peter Boyd, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025 Beyond those bins sat aisle after aisle of records, alphabetized and by genre. David Browne, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec. 2024 His recommendations are alphabetized and listed below. Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2024 Read on for more about all the Jewish and Israeli medalists, alphabetized and in order of medal type. Jacob Gurvis, Sun Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2024 In my household, nobody studied a foreign language or alphabetized their bookshelves. Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2024 Though Fubo doesn't alphabetize its channels, the platform earns points for keeping your 'favorited' channels at the top of the guide. Kaitlin Marks, EW.com, 31 Aug. 2022 On a particularly frustrating day, when everyone’s technology needed rebooting and her third-graders struggled to alphabetize a list of words, Ms. A could push and encourage her in-person students. Washington Post, 10 July 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for alphabetize
Verb
  • No charges were filed against Darvish as of April 13.
    Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The lawsuit was initially filed against Meta — then called Facebook — in 2020, during Mr. Trump's first term, before being amended in 2021.
    Jacob Rosen, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • For this de-extinction project, Shapiro and her colleagues returned to two dire wolf fossils sequenced in that original paper: A 13,000-year-old tooth from Sheridan Pit, Ohio, and a 72,000-year-old inner ear bone from American Falls, Idaho.
    Emily Mullin, Wired News, 7 Apr. 2025
  • In 2003, the human genome was sequenced—Church’s own DNA was the first to be publicly released.
    D. T. Max, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Instead, a growing wave of holidaymakers appears to be prioritizing summer trips to northern Europe to escape the blistering heat.
    Sam Meredith, CNBC, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Given that its decoder is tasked with both transcription and token prediction, without precise alignment between audio and text during training, the model can prioritize generating fluent text over accurately transcribing the input.
    Asmelash Teka Hadgu, Scientific American, 14 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Incorporating a set of packing cubes can encourage you to pare down and organize your clothing based on the type of clothes or the day.
    Rylee Johnston, Travel + Leisure, 16 Mar. 2025
  • People search sites, also known as people finder sites, are a kind of data broker that specializes in collecting, organizing and selling access to personal information.
    Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, Fox News, 16 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Biologists of many different subdisciplines categorize life in a field called systematics.
    Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The recall is categorized as class 3, which is the least serious category and means that exposure to the product is not likely to cause adverse health consequences, according to the FDA.
    Alain Sherter, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2025

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“Alphabetize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alphabetize. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.

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