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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To sort again.

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Examples

  • Not nearly as much as I am relieved at not having to dust it and and find a place for it and re-sort it and get all its bits together and and put it away a zillion times and have to damn look at it all the time. das memsen

    Advisor: What should I do with my high school CD collection? Boing Boing 2010

  • I don't think so.... it's more that in the end you re-sort out your own personal spaces and/as they develop theirs, and it sort of rebalances.

    Very last of the Tasmanians girliejones 2010

  • I long ago ceased filing items from my Inbox into customer-specific or other folders in my Outlook -- when I want to find something, I search based on a few keywords or re-sort by author, subject, or date depending on what I can remember about what I want to find.

    Search Killed the Taxonomy Star 2008

  • I long ago ceased filing items from my Inbox into customer-specific or other folders in my Outlook -- when I want to find something, I search based on a few keywords or re-sort by author, subject, or date depending on what I can remember about what I want to find.

    6 entries from January 2008 2008

  • We should be using the social web to re-sort articles after peer-review to reflect our preferences:

    Archive 2008-08-01 Pedro Beltrao 2008

  • We should be using the social web to re-sort articles after peer-review to reflect our preferences:

    Post-publication journals Pedro Beltrao 2008

  • Remote-control shortcuts re-sort this list: pressing "1" switches from sequential to alphabetical order and vice versa; pressing "2" ungroups shows to display each title; shows are regrouped into folders when "2" is pressed again.

    Tapping Your TiVo's Hidden Talents 2008

  • Time has to be taken to keep it in order, dig around it when you are looking for something else, or re-fold and re-sort it to keep it out of the way.

    Archive 2005-01-01 2005

  • I'd like to re-sort the list into good reasons and bad reasons!

    Archive 2007-07-01 Ann Althouse 2007

  • Well, trying to do this re-sort would involve endless argument.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Ann Althouse 2007

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