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sorting through

sorting through is the present participle and gerund of sort through.

Meaning of sort through

Verb

sort through (third-person singular simple present sorts through, present participle sorting through, simple past and past participle sorted through)

  1. To look through (a collection of documents, facts, etc.) to make sense of them or put them in order.
    • You have to sort through the facts and come to a conclusion.

Questions about sorting through

What is sorting through the present participle and gerund of?
Sorting through is the present participle and gerund of sort through.

Words near sorting through in the dictionary

  1. sorting oneself out
  2. sorting out
  3. sorting table
  4. sorting tables
  5. sorting the wheat from the chaff
  6. sorting through
  7. sortings
  8. Sortino
  9. Sortinos
  10. sortita
  11. sortition

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sorting through (page history and authors); sort through (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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