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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One such example is a financial service company that had originally planned to spend up to $10,000 on an internal project to better sort through thousands of contracts.
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Kelly Huang, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
Instead, set aside time each week to sort through each piece of paper (rather than picking it up and shuffling it around multiple times per week!).
—Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 June 2025
Several years ago, an employee at Universal Music came across a cassette tape in a Tokyo warehouse while sorting through archival materials.
—Xianda Huang, The Conversation, 6 June 2025
While sorting through storage in their Rhode Island studio to prep those reissues, Ivy stumbled upon a treasure trove of reel-to-reel tapes and old hard drives with unused material.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 4 June 2025
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Kelly Huang, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
Instead, set aside time each week to sort through each piece of paper (rather than picking it up and shuffling it around multiple times per week!).
—Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 June 2025
Several years ago, an employee at Universal Music came across a cassette tape in a Tokyo warehouse while sorting through archival materials.
—Xianda Huang, The Conversation, 6 June 2025
While sorting through storage in their Rhode Island studio to prep those reissues, Ivy stumbled upon a treasure trove of reel-to-reel tapes and old hard drives with unused material.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 4 June 2025
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“Sort through.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sort%20through. Accessed 24 Jun. 2025.
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