categories

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Categories include junior music, solo music, musical group, dance, comedy, magic variety, junior variety and a catch-all variety category.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

Category 5 storms are extremely rare, accounting for about one percent of events classified as "extreme," while Categories 0 and 1 are common, together making up 79 percent of storms.

From Barron's • Feb. 2, 2026

Appeared in the October 29, 2025, print edition as 'A Band Between Categories'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

“It’s not unprecedented, but it’s unusual to have two Categories 3 or higher in August,” said David Robinson, climatologist at Rutgers University.

From Slate • Aug. 29, 2023

They monitored what the members of the Black Categories did during the day, recorded any visitors to their homes, watched their Morning Repentance and Evening Reports, and supervised their sweeping the alley twice a day.

From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang