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“Something where everybody stinks is the ideal sort of outing,” Norton says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
"I'd found my birth mum being able to sort of make her truly happy. And I'd found a family really that I never really knew existed."
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Were you also stepping in as sort of a therapist?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
"I think these differences will exist for the foreseeable future, and our job is to sort of manage those so that they never get out of control," he said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
There’s a long pause as her words sink in, and I try to sort out what she’s telling me into something that’s true.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
“It’s made stocks extraordinarily expensive on all sorts of measures, and on the flip side, it’s made bonds cheap on many,” Elliott says.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
"It's more likely that when Australia was part of Gondwana it was swarming with all sorts of bizarre, primitive marsupial-like things, and that several of them survived and led to our modern lineages."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
Her agency has fielded all sorts of parenting requests: providing equestrian nannies who travel to tournaments, baby chefs to prepare culturally specific purées for infants, personal stylists for the children.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
“Foreign Tongues” pointedly concludes with Chuck Berry’s “Beautiful Delilah” as an homage of sorts to the forefathers who made the band’s existence possible in the first place.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
There were ten total, little cubbies carved out of the very rock of the mountain to make bunk beds of sorts.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
The food "lasts me quite a long time, since there aren't many of us," she told AFP as she sorted through the donations.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
Locals had requested an injunction to block city leaders from spending public money until the recall is sorted out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Since Monroe took over as the fund’s portfolio manager late in 2019, we have sorted the list of peers by five-year average annual returns.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
She carried both pebbles and crystals in her mouth to a wooden platform, where she sorted them into separate groups.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
They sorted through the stores and set out what they could take, making of it a measured cube in the corner of the shelter.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
But lately, it’s been more about sorting the potential winners from losers in the artificial-intelligence race.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
The team also found that the more the car sorting task was "offloaded" from the prefrontal cortex, the better participants performed a second task at the same time.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
Steele said they had finished sorting the first load of food at about 01:00 BST on Monday before returning to the circuit just a few hours later.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
If a data center’s thousands of miles of fiber cables are the roads that the data travels, then Nokia’s products are the trucks and sorting centers that get the data where it needs to go.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Dropping my bag on the floor beside the desk, I slide into the roller chair and start the process of opening the mail and sorting it into piles.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam