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categorize

[kat-i-guh-rahyz] / ˈkæt ɪ gəˌraɪz /


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“Consumers tend to categorize prices into ranges, so having a price be under $10 can feel different than a price that is $10 and above, even when the actual monetary difference is negligible.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

There’s been little new science on the 19 peptides since the FDA’s 2023 decision to categorize them as unsafe.

From Salon Apr. 4, 2026

Apps like Rocket Money can link bank accounts, categorize spending habits and flag unused subscriptions.

From MarketWatch Mar. 31, 2026

McAlpine acknowledges that her film has been difficult to categorize.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 23, 2026

Then I categorize every item as many different ways as I can think of.

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements

Taiwan’s Olympic athletes must compete as “Chinese Taipei” and the World Trade Organization categorizes the semiconductor powerhouse as a “separate customs territory.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 3, 2026

The ISU categorizes somersault-like jumps as “choreographic elements.”

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 12, 2026

Wall Street categorizes metals as precious, base/industrial, and maybe “other” for the weird ones.

From Barron's Dec. 26, 2025

Among left-leaning Americans, there's no dominant religious categorization, at least in the manner that the media categorizes them.

From Salon Oct. 18, 2024

Sister Miriam Joseph* categorizes the relation of the trivial arts as follows: logic is concerned with the thing-as-it-is-known; grammar is concerned with the thing-as-it-is-symbolized; rhetoric is concerned with the thing-as-it-is-communicated.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

Using the Nova classification system, researchers categorized 81% of them as ultra-processed.

From Science Daily Jul. 29, 2026

Some companies didn’t disclose dollar figures for each individual perk; reporters generally categorized these aggregate amounts in “other.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

The study also categorized unemployment claims by age and found that a significant portion of claims were from those aged 36 to 65, signaling that AI’s effect doesn’t only affect early-career jobs.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 4, 2026

Teledyne, often categorized as an industrial-sensing company, is embedded in the counterdrone detection chain through systems already operational in active theaters.

From MarketWatch Jun. 29, 2026

A helpful chart from the city categorized every home as a Tudor, English, or French style and laid out the appropriate colors for architects and homeowners alike.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

Apps are great for tracking spending and automatically categorizing — making it easy to see that you spent this much more on food than clothes, or what you’re putting toward subscriptions.

From MarketWatch May 14, 2026

Agencies must submit “contingency plans” categorizing which employees are essential on a standardized worksheet.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 15, 2025

They started categorizing me with sad and sentimental music.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 19, 2025

That's the lower limit of categorizing objects on the Torino Scale.

From Salon Mar. 3, 2025

Children can explore the timbre, production, and material of the instruments to come up with their own ways of categorizing them.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin




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