categorize
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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
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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
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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
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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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