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English word

sort

A2Frequent NGSL-1
UK /sɔːt/US /sɔːrt/
noun

a group or type of people or things that are similar in a particular way

verb

to arrange things in groups or in a particular order according to their type, etc.; to separate things of one type from others

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And life cannot simply be about sort of solving one miserable problem after another.

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