ordered
Americanadjective
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neatly or conveniently arranged; well-organized.
an ordered office.
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done according to specific principles or procedures.
an ordered method of assembling the parts.
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conducted according to certain precepts or rules.
an ordered way of life.
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Ordered off the menu, the two meals would have easily exceeded $150 per person.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
Ordered through Verne's app like any rideshare service, the automated vehicles are equipped with multiple cameras, lidar lasers and radars to help navigate the streets.
From Barron's • May 5, 2026
Yet The Nation’s Elie Mystal noticed something unusual about the publication date of Alito’s forthcoming doorstopper “So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and the Country.”
From Salon • Feb. 19, 2026
And the first reason is the announcement of the justice’s forthcoming memoir, which is pompously titled So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country.
From Slate • Feb. 13, 2026
"But I was only driving him, sir. I only stopped there after he ordered me to . . ." "Ordered you?" he said.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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