categorizing

Example Sentences

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

That's the lower limit of categorizing objects on the Torino Scale.

From Salon • Mar. 3, 2025

During early assessments of impact risk, Apophis reached a rating of Torino Scale 4, which is a scale for categorizing potential Earth impact events.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2025

A 2021 survey found that practicing biologists used 16 different approaches to categorizing species.

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2024

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