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classification

[klas-uh-fi-key-shuhn] / ˌklæs ə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən /


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But the English group’s slippery music resists stylistic classification.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

The reduction in categories comes amid broader national debates over identity classification, institutional representation, and how government systems reflect demographic complexity.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026

The storm reached "violent typhoon" status, the highest classification used by the Japan Meteorological Agency and roughly equivalent to a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026

The trust also developed its own classification system for serious incidents, outside the framework used across the NHS in England.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

I believe, on hunch, that an inventory of our major disease problems based on this sort of classification would show a limited number of important questions for which the predictable answers carry certainty.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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