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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
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If any of your miscellaneous items have coins or small objects that fall into vents or wet items that lead to rust can cause electrical issues overtime.—
Ashlyn Needham,
Southern Living,
25 Jan. 2025
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In the miscellaneous social science category, the University of Michigan topped the list followed by UCLA; University of Maryland; Harvard University; and the University of Wisconsin, Madison.—
Michael T. Nietzel,
Forbes,
2 Jan. 2025
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Over time, the adequacy of these labels has further eroded as Asian Americans and Latino/as have become even more heterogeneous.—
Jane Hong / Made by History,
TIME,
24 Jan. 2025
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Expect to see a move toward a more heterogeneous security stack that will enable organizations to avoid single points of failure, balance risk and sidestep vendor lock-in.—
Mike Wilson,
Forbes,
22 Nov. 2024
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The federal government spent more than $6.7 trillion last fiscal year, with the largest payments directed toward Social Security, Medicare, interest payments, defense spending, and other assorted health costs.—
William Gavin,
Quartz,
23 Jan. 2025
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Maria will give us the last week of Callas’s life, with assorted flashbacks.—
Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
22 Jan. 2025
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Chinese Hack: One of China’s intelligence agencies hacked the U.S. Treasury Department, gaining access to the workstations of government employees and unclassified documents, the Biden administration said.—
Meaghan Tobin,
New York Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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In an unclassified document from 2010, Department of Homeland Security officials warned that vehicle-ramming allows terrorists who lack access to or expertise in explosives or other weapons an opportunity to carry out an attack.—
Jaclyn Diaz,
NPR,
4 Jan. 2025
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For ten nights, an eclectic group of hunters confront the dangerous terrain, nocturnal creatures and their own tiny demons.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
22 Jan. 2025
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The result was a wide variety of power-train configurations finding a home in an eclectic array of models.—
Viju Mathew,
Robb Report,
22 Jan. 2025
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Palestinians and some rights groups have described such operations as unlawful collective punishment against the population that causes indiscriminate destruction and civilian casualties.—
Lara Jakes,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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The messages said the U.S. Border Patrol was conducting an indiscriminate dragnet in the area, pulling over vehicles presumed to be carrying immigrants to work and taking dozens into custody.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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“Unsorted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsorted. Accessed 3 Feb. 2025.
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