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Question: Is there a "partial sorting" command in Maple?

Question:Is there a "partial sorting" command in Maple?

sursumCorda 922 Maple 2023
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October 28 2023
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In short, I'd like to obtain n largest/smallest elements in a huge list of (probably non-numeric) data. Of cource I can sort it and then extract the desired part, yet isn't there a dedicated procedure that do a partial sort of the input data in Maple?

Edit. In a MatLab weblog, the blogger gave: 

So I believe that a dedicated one is not useless. But what is the Maple equivalent to MatLab's maxk, mink, and topkrows?
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