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Recent Examples of unordered
Part handling in warehouse automation is challenging if a large variety of items must be accommodated and items are stored in unordered piles.
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Erico Guizzo, IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2017
The technique, known as brushing, involves fake packages that appear to come from Amazon or other companies, where boxes of unordered items are delivered to your doorstep.
—Alex Perry, The Enquirer, 26 Sep. 2024
This expanded the cursory support for numbered and unordered lists and checkboxes to the big items, like headlines, italics, bold, strikethrough, and links.
—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 17 July 2024
Some scholars assume—or hope—that an unordered world will sort itself out on its own, that great powers will carve out stable spheres of influence and avoid conflict or that the spread of international commerce and enlightened ideas will naturally maintain global peace and prosperity.
—Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 14 Feb. 2022
Enlarge Anas Photography Anyone who has taken a basic computer science class has undoubtedly spent time devising a sorting algorithm—code that will take an unordered list of items and put them in ascending or descending order.
—Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 7 June 2023
And Ha, along with fellow computer scientist Yujin Tang, recently designed a model that could intentionally send large amounts of data through a transformer in a random, unordered way, mimicking how the human body transmits sensory observations to the brain.
—Stephen Ornes, Quanta Magazine, 12 Sep. 2022
Michigan’s Chief medical executive, Joneigh Khaldun, said late Friday the number of unordered doses offers only a single-day snapshot, noting the federal government had deposited a large number of doses in the state’s account in anticipation of their later use at a mass vaccination site.
—Isaac Stanley-Becker, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2021
Its pages adopt the structure of unordered lists—uniform and sturdy.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023
Erico Guizzo, IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2017
The technique, known as brushing, involves fake packages that appear to come from Amazon or other companies, where boxes of unordered items are delivered to your doorstep.
—Alex Perry, The Enquirer, 26 Sep. 2024
This expanded the cursory support for numbered and unordered lists and checkboxes to the big items, like headlines, italics, bold, strikethrough, and links.
—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 17 July 2024
Some scholars assume—or hope—that an unordered world will sort itself out on its own, that great powers will carve out stable spheres of influence and avoid conflict or that the spread of international commerce and enlightened ideas will naturally maintain global peace and prosperity.
—Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 14 Feb. 2022
Enlarge Anas Photography Anyone who has taken a basic computer science class has undoubtedly spent time devising a sorting algorithm—code that will take an unordered list of items and put them in ascending or descending order.
—Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 7 June 2023
And Ha, along with fellow computer scientist Yujin Tang, recently designed a model that could intentionally send large amounts of data through a transformer in a random, unordered way, mimicking how the human body transmits sensory observations to the brain.
—Stephen Ornes, Quanta Magazine, 12 Sep. 2022
Michigan’s Chief medical executive, Joneigh Khaldun, said late Friday the number of unordered doses offers only a single-day snapshot, noting the federal government had deposited a large number of doses in the state’s account in anticipation of their later use at a mass vaccination site.
—Isaac Stanley-Becker, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2021
Its pages adopt the structure of unordered lists—uniform and sturdy.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unordered
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This fresh, modern reimagining of Ang Lee’s 1993 classic by Andrew Ahn follows a group of friends who need to get married for convenience—until family arrives, and the plan spirals into extravagant, chaotic mayhem.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
4 Mar. 2025
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Moreover, the chaotic layoff of federal workers will likely lead to a rise in unemployment and tightening of spending by those losing their jobs.—
Mayra Rodriguez Valladares,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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At Vintage Frills, unorganized shelves, racks bursting with thousands of random pieces, and having to browse through mountains of fast fashion clothes bought last year—that, naturally, someone threw away when trends changed—are a thing of the past.—
Grace Butler,
USA TODAY,
14 Feb. 2025
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That, in turn, could help businesses sort through troves of messy unorganized datasets faster and find patterns and data points to help make decisions.—
Rashi Shrivastava,
Forbes,
5 Feb. 2025
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Emily Keeney Dated or disorganized houses become functional, fresh homes in the hands of Drift Interiors + Architecture.—
Elizabeth Stamp,
Architectural Digest,
10 Feb. 2025
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To mix metaphors as badly as this doc overcomplicates Combs’ case by tackling the topic too early and from too many angles, this research is so disorganized that the story resembles something akin to deranged lobbyists throwing spaghetti at the wall through a shotgun.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
13 Jan. 2025
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That is as incoherent as embracing folks who beat up police officers.—
Gary Franks,
Hartford Courant,
1 Mar. 2025
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Europe still needs to define its response to avoid being squeezed between incoherent U.S. policies and China’s responsive maneuvers.—
Arancha González Laya,
Foreign Affairs,
6 Jan. 2025
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“Unordered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unordered. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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