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in order

Ready, prepared; orderly; tidy.

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#1·Apr 27, 2026

Ready, prepared; orderly; tidy.

Some teachers find it hard to keep their classes in order.
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  • “Every right secured by peaceful protest gets taken away. In order to secure permanent rights, there must be dire consequences for those who would strip them away. Dire. Consequences.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “✨ The UCC Board has called for a special meeting of the Thirty-fifth General Synod, in order to elect the next Associate General Minister, Love of Church. 📺 All are invited to share in this special moment, as we live stream this event on YouTube: https://ow.ly/HwLt50YUy3C”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “i don't think you have to "separate the art from the artist" in order to continue ethically consuming media made by bad people”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “It's in order to make us, as a whole, weaker and easier to control. JFK might think he's doing "right", but he's doing the bidding of the wanna-be overlords.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “I worked on this project in 2018 or so, it was all on paper only and was being pitched everywhere in order to secure massive funding.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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#2·Apr 27, 2026

In a sequence.

Place the cards in order by color, then by number.
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  • “He wants to "leave his mark" on history. And he's such a malignant narcissist he LITERALLY doesn't care who dies in order for him to achieve it.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Fun thing I learned: tying vector data directly to image output in Blender blows up pretty badly. Needed to do this first in order to get it to not be treated as a black and white image for some reason”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Taylor Swift fan accounts who follow back everyone immediately may be subject to a temporary hold on your ability to feel things publicly in order to maintain plausible deniability about what this fandom has done.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “*sigh* When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem becomes a nail. Looks like the RBA want to trigger a recession to drive up unemployment, in order to reduce inflation.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Have there been issues in Xinjiang that have been blown out of proportion, as things usually are; by the west? For sure, in order to paint a far more cruel picture than reality, as they do with any country that won't bend the knee.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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#3·Apr 27, 2026

(idiomatic, formal) In accordance with the procedural rules governing formal meetings of a deliberative body.

I wish I could get my desk in order.
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