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It required UC to share “an electronic sortable spreadsheet” with details on who reported civil rights complaints and who they were lodged against for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 academic years.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2025

“To call this whole package transparent and searchable is really stretching the definition of the word transparent,” he said, adding that Congress should insist all earmarks are listed in searchable and sortable spreadsheets.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 17, 2021

Several major auction houses anchor big events around Pebble Beach, and I've compiled all of the results from two of the biggest — Gooding and RM Sotheby's — into a sortable and searchable table below.

From The Verge • Aug. 22, 2015

And here’s a complete sortable list of who’s taken the trips.

From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2013

This yielded him the Bailie's account of Glasgow commerce "in Musselburgh stuffs and Edinburgh shalloons," and the phrase "sortable cargoes."

From Rob Roy — Volume 01 by Scott, Walter, Sir