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[klas-uh-fahy] / ˈklæs əˌfaɪ /


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Physicists classify these particles as belonging to the first generation of matter.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

The codes are used by doctors and insurance companies to classify diseases, symptoms and medical conditions, and are used for billing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Despite largely controlling the tasks and pay, the platforms typically classify the workers as independent contractors rather than employees.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

For much of Wales and Northern England, the three-day run of temperatures of 25C or above required to classify as a heatwave will not be met.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

The only cases that were impossible to classify were those of José Arcadio Segundo and Aureliano Segundo.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In Goleta, municipal code classifies licensed gun stores as “general retail,” the same designation given to shops selling sporting goods, clothing, furniture and a wide variety of other items.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

The ETC said that northern Europe, which it classifies as Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden and the UK, had "outperformed all other European subregions".

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

OpenAI classifies model risk into two tiers, with “critical” representing the highest level of capability threat, above “high.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Food and Drug Administration classifies zinc oxide as safe and effective.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026

In Plato’s allegory of the metals, the philosopher classifies men into groups of gold, silver, and lead.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

More important, the patients with a body mass index of 35 or higher who took the highest dose of retatrutide were no longer classified as obese after undergoing treatment.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

Assembly Bill 2555 dismantles and streamlines an aging system that some researchers said kept far too many students classified as English learners months or even years after mastering the language.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

The researchers also determined that three gentoo populations previously classified as subspecies are different enough genetically to be recognized as full species.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

In 2024, he says, 48.4% of antisemitic offenses were classified as right-wing, compared with 31.1% as fueled by “foreign ideology” and 11% by “religious ideology.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Mitchell claimed it was because these papers had not printed classified material—obviously untrue, since the entire McNamara report was classified.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

The CDC has not yet included the Pennsylvania deaths in its national tally while it reviews the records and develops standardized criteria for classifying measles deaths.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

Modern taxonomy, the science of naming and classifying organisms, increasingly attempts to reflect actual evolutionary relationships by grouping species according to shared ancestry.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

"It is therefore highly probable that we will end up classifying it as a megafire."

From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026

She interviewed 20- and 30-somethings about their financial woes, classifying them as the nouveau pauvre, or, as a well-known economist put it, “well-dressed paupers.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

Before that, she’d been working as a file clerk at a nearby hospital, classifying the records of patients who had died.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García




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