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The term “arrange” is employed with remarkable versatility in literature, spanning from the organization of social events and personal affairs to the meticulous ordering of physical objects and abstract ideas. Authors use it to depict the orchestration of meetings or matches, hinting at negotiation and careful planning, as seen when a match is to be set up or a retreat is to be prepared [1, 2]. It also conveys the physical act of setting things in order—whether it is positioning furniture in a room [3, 4] or even aligning numbers in puzzles [5, 6, 7]—and extends to the symbolic arrangement of interpersonal relations and formal unions [8, 9]. Beyond these, “arrange” serves in instructive contexts, from culinary directives, where ingredients are laid out and served [10, 11, 12], to the formulation of abstract, hierarchical orders within logical discourse [13, 14].
  1. I will do all I can to arrange the match between them.
    — from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy
  2. But before I commence work I had better arrange for my retreat.
    — from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc
  3. Before he came back home from his work of an evening, she would arrange his arm-chair and woollen slippers before the fire with her own hands.
    — from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore
  4. “Arrange everything with Darya in the sitting room for Anna Arkadyevna,” he said to Matvey when he came in.
    — from Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy
  5. Arrange the nine digits in three groups of two, three, and four digits, so that the first two numbers when multiplied together make the third.
    — from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney
  6. For example, I arrange the fifty hurdles as in Fig.
    — from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney
  7. The puzzle, therefore, consists in counting the number of different ways that we can arrange the fourteen round the edge of the board without attack.
    — from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney
  8. When they were delivered, Roland said, "Now I will go to my father and arrange for the wedding."
    — from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
  9. And again in 1832 when Eugenie was left a widow by Cruchot de Bonfons, the family of the marquis tried to arrange a marriage with him.
    — from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Cerfberr and Christophe
  10. MAKE FISH BALLS OUT OF THIS MATERIAL AND POACH THE SAME IN WINE, BROTH AND OIL; AND WHEN COOKED, ARRANGE THEM IN A DISH.
    — from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius
  11. AS TO SOFTEN THEM, CUT THEM INTO SMALL PIECES, SEASON WITH GROUND PEPPER AND CUMIN, ARRANGE IN A BAKING DISH, FINISH ON THE FIRE AND SERVE
    — from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius
  12. [In a deep dish arrange the duck] ON TOP OF THE TURNIPS [strain the sauce over it] SPRINKLE WITH PEPPER AND SERVE.
    — from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius
  13. Arrange the facts in one way and you reach one result, arrange the facts another way and you may reach the opposite.
    — from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross
  14. It is undeniably possible to arrange them in a hierarchy.
    — from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

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