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Recent Examples of unsorted
The British Library data—an apparently unsorted dump of employees’ passport scans and other personal information—were put up for sale for twenty bitcoins, some eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
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Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2023
Some of the Moroccans have so many crates that the beds needed to be stashed away and their piles of merchandise — an unsorted mix of meteorites and ordinary desert rocks — spill out onto the sidewalks outside the motel-style units.
—Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2014
Technological improvements have led to simple quantum computers that could, if scaled up, do certain things better than today’s computers, such as searching through unsorted lists and factoring big numbers.
—Devin Powell, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2016
Remember those viral TikToks over the summer capturing never-ending lines at the airport, flight delays and cancellations, and rooms full of unsorted luggage?
—Diana Tsui, ELLE, 23 Nov. 2022
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Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2023
Some of the Moroccans have so many crates that the beds needed to be stashed away and their piles of merchandise — an unsorted mix of meteorites and ordinary desert rocks — spill out onto the sidewalks outside the motel-style units.
—Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2014
Technological improvements have led to simple quantum computers that could, if scaled up, do certain things better than today’s computers, such as searching through unsorted lists and factoring big numbers.
—Devin Powell, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2016
Remember those viral TikToks over the summer capturing never-ending lines at the airport, flight delays and cancellations, and rooms full of unsorted luggage?
—Diana Tsui, ELLE, 23 Nov. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsorted
Adjective
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Since the start of 2025, Keil has been charged in Missouri courts with assault, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and a miscellaneous weapons violation, according to court records.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
28 Feb. 2025
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The All-Star championship tipped off after what seemed like endless commercial breaks and miscellaneous on-court performances.—
Danny Emerman,
The Mercury News,
18 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Fifty years ago, both major U.S. parties were internally heterogeneous, relatively moderate, and broadly committed to democratic rules of the game.—
STEVEN LEVITSKY,
Foreign Affairs,
11 Feb. 2025
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Large companies often have a heterogeneous IT environment where different regions and divisions use different ERP and supply chain applications.—
Steve Banker,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Also for dessert will be assorted cookies, barks, bonbons, an apple strudel and ice cream sundaes made to order.—
Jack Smart,
People.com,
1 Mar. 2025
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Then there is the Bob Dylan Instagram account, featuring tour promos and, lately, assorted video clips, mostly of old movies.—
Matthew Strauss,
Pitchfork,
27 Feb. 2025
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Earlier this month, Russell T. Vought, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, instructed staff members at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to turn over all unclassified information to DOGE workers, according to two people familiar with the request.—
Andrew Duehren,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2025
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The New York Times reported on Wednesday that the names of some CIA employees had been listed in an unclassified email sent to officials at the Office of Personnel Management.—
Henry Gass,
The Christian Science Monitor,
7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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No Stunt Awards category has been as consistently eclectic as this one, featuring Oscar front-runners Anora and the Substance, a Trent Reznor–scored final tennis match from Challengers, and a movie starring 95-year-old June Squibb.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
27 Feb. 2025
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Nowadays Lisbon is experiencing something of a Renaissance with more than four million visitors annually attracted by the city’s eclectic mix of Roman, Islamic and European cultures as well as its historic ruins, trams, fado music, pasteis de nata and famous azulejos tiles.—
Lee Sharrock,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Congressional Republicans have raised no objections to the massive, indiscriminate firings of employees in many government offices and federal organizations initiated by Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.—
Mordechai Gordon,
Hartford Courant,
28 Feb. 2025
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The indiscriminate firing of probationary employees in the Forest Service and other federal agencies, in my opinion, violates the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978.—
Letters to the Editor,
Orlando Sentinel,
28 Feb. 2025
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“Unsorted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsorted. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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