set apart vs sort out

set apart

verb
  • To select (something or someone) for a specific purpose. 

  • To distinguish, make obvious the distinction between (two things) or of (something). 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: to separate or isolate. 

sort out

verb
  • To provide (somebody) with a necessity, or a solution to a problem. 

  • To fix, as a problem. 

  • To separate from the remainder of a group; often construed with from. 

  • To clarify by reviewing mentally. 

  • To arrange. 

  • To organise or separate into groups, as a collection of items, so as to make tidy. 

  • To attack physically. 

How often have the words set apart and sort out occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )