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classify

[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

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

It was a big enough job for the two scholars to classify all the known musical instruments of the world.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 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

I’d never been to church and had never stopped to classify my thoughts into good ones and bad ones.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

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

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

The UN agency classifies El Nino events as weak, moderate, strong or very strong, meaning it is set to reach the third-highest level out of four.

From Barron's Jul. 3, 2026

The European Chemicals Agency classifies the chemical as harmful to aquatic life.

From Science Daily Jun. 9, 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

When a child has a congenital heart defect without other complications, the condition is classified as non-syndromic congenital heart disease.

From Science Daily Sep. 15, 2026

The details of that framework, which was designed over the summer, remain classified.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

The Tapanuli orangutan, another species native to Sumatra, is also classified as critically endangered, with fewer than 800 believed left in the wild.

From Barron's Sep. 11, 2026

There are three known living species of orangutan - Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli - all of which are classified as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, or IUCN.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

Roughly half of the people in state prisons are classified as violent offenders, but that statistic can easily be misinterpreted.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

That includes classifying Astra as reaching a "critical cybersecurity threshold," which means OpenAI believes the model is capable of finding and exploiting cybersecurity gaps.

From Barron's Sep. 1, 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

In Kentucky, lawmakers recently passed a bill classifying TV-viewing patterns as “sensitive data” deserving of broader legal protections and transparency measures.

From Slate May 3, 2026

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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