Synonyms for sorting
sort·ing

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1. sort, sortingnoun

   an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion

   "the bottleneck in mail delivery is the process of sorting"

   Synonyms:
   variety, classification, form, categorization, categorisation, kind, sort

2. classification, categorization, categorisation, sortingnoun

   the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories

   Synonyms:
   classification, categorisation, categorization, compartmentalisation, sort, assortment, compartmentalization

3. sortingnoun

   grouping by class or kind or size

   Synonyms:
   sort, classification, categorization, categorisation

Matched Categories

1. • Basic Cognitive Process
   • Grouping
   • Operation

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1. List of paraphrases for "sorting":

   triage, yard, sort, tri, classification, trier, counting, shunting, marshalling, classifying

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1. Brent McGoldrick:

   I fully expect smaller places to become more conservative and larger places to become more Democratic, if you believe geographic sorting / arbitrage is happening, then where people live and how they live is increasingly important in predicting their views on politics.

2. Richard Baum:

   I just think we can't stand still, the sorting problem is so huge that we need better quality data earlier.

3. Lynn Vavreck:

   This is the long arc of history, there are these moments that exacerbate things, like Trump running for that nomination in 2016 : If he hadn't run, the sorting would probably be taking a little longer. But it was always marching in that direction. You try to just ask yourself what stops it, or what reverses it, or what slows it ? ... I can't come up with a good answer to that question.

4. Nick Cienski:

   We are still sorting through a lot of emotions; 24 hours ago we were wrapping people's body parts in bags, so on the one hand (there is) the reality of that ... and on the second hand, we are climbers and this is sort of what we do. And so, does it make sense to continue?

5. Jacob Appelbaum:

   They’re building mass surveillance platforms left and right, they use them for ethnic detection and sorting, which is used for social sorting, which is used for what I think are probably genocidal activities, and when you look at that, you think is that the path you want America to be on?