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categorize

[kat-i-guh-rahyz] / ˈkæt ɪ gəˌraɪz /


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One person might describe feeling unusually cold, another might mention constant chills, while a clinician could categorize those experiences using a specific medical term.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

He feels conflicted about using the word “queer” to categorize his work, but only largely because he does not want his pieces to be reduced to tacky, “kitsch-ified” representations of Latinidad.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

That includes the way scientists categorize species within Homo as well as Australopithecus and Paranthropus, all of which lived during the past 5 million years.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

Companies aren’t required to categorize perks, so reporters created a taxonomy of nine types of perks, including an “other” category.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

There was gray in his hair, though he was not old; three syllables, she thought, trying to categorize him in some way that would perhaps explain his presence.

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry

Just 16% of respondents expressed a state of confidence about their money, a separate bucket that the survey categorizes as financially “fulfilled.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025

The International Union for Conservation of Nature red list categorizes lions as vulnerable to extinction.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2025

Yeh categorizes sweet salads with affection and a wink: cookie salads, Jell-O salads, candy bar salads, fluffs.

From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2025

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

The A&E network categorized “Desert Law,” the TV series about the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, as a modest success, a spokesman said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

And finally, she categorized either by their weights in the PCE or by treating each category individually.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 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

Why, a biologist might ask, were living things categorized in this manner?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The software also sends reminder emails and phone alerts to prompt people to keep up with categorizing transactions that are automatically pulled in or inputting new ones manually.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

I often wonder: Does their categorizing need extend to the subatomic realm?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

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

Stopping before the narrow garage, he sniffed the fumes from Paradise with great sensory pleasure, the protruding hairs in his nostrils analyzing, cataloguing, categorizing, and classifying the distinct odors of hot dog, mustard, and lubricant.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole




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