categorization

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By comparing activity patterns along visual recognition pathways in the models and in the babies' brains, the researchers could better understand how early categorization takes place.

From Science Daily • Feb. 5, 2026

This categorization of roles and responsibilities will naturally reveal which positions are unnecessary because they duplicate others’ work, operate less efficiently, or are simply no longer needed.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 13, 2026

As Ms. Stalnaker points out, he was “a writer who proclaimed a series of last works, but whose actual last work defies easy categorization as a philosophical or literary testament.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

That categorization is potentially dangerous to patients, an unnecessary source of middle-of-the-night stress that can be deeply damaging to the very quality of life this person seeks to retain.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2024

And then on the afternoon that Willow Chance came to see him, all of his categorization ground to a halt, like a fork thrown into the gears of outdated machinery.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan