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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

Check out all the Seattle Restaurant Week options here, sortable for takeout options by neighborhood, and also now by factors like Black-owned, “Eat Local First,” vegan and more.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 25, 2020

The administration ditched the ratings plan and opted to publish sortable information on alumni earnings, graduation rates and other measures through the Scorecard.

From Washington Post • Sep. 17, 2015

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

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