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categorize

[kat-i-guh-rahyz] / ˈkæt ɪ gəˌraɪz /


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Large language models such as GPT and Gemini are changing that equation by allowing researchers to process and categorize vast amounts of text more consistently and quickly.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

That includes the way scientists categorize species within Homo as well as Australopithecus and Paranthropus, all of which lived during the past 5 million years.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

Artists, she noted wryly, often prove difficult to categorize within bureaucratic systems.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

Drucker explores the different roles inside every business, which I would categorize as builders, sellers and measurers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

The comment was so like Bobby in that he tended to remember and categorize people through their chess games, not necessarily anything else.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Just 16% of respondents expressed a state of confidence about their money, a separate bucket that the survey categorizes as financially “fulfilled.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

Wall Street categorizes metals as precious, base/industrial, and maybe “other” for the weird ones.

From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025

The International Union for Conservation of Nature red list categorizes lions as vulnerable to extinction.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2025

She already has some ideas, which she categorizes as “baddie florals.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025

Sister Miriam Joseph* categorizes the relation of the trivial arts as follows: logic is concerned with the thing-as-it-is-known; grammar is concerned with the thing-as-it-is-symbolized; rhetoric is concerned with the thing-as-it-is-communicated.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

Cargo is never categorized as imports and only goes through minimal customs checks before being shifted between aircrafts, officials said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Using the Nova classification system, researchers categorized 81% of them as ultra-processed.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

About 30% of the remaining spending growth was categorized as new, either by newly created programs or the expansion of existing services.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

Teledyne, often categorized as an industrial-sensing company, is embedded in the counterdrone detection chain through systems already operational in active theaters.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026

Antisocial personality, though it described plenty of guys on R-and-W, seemed also to serve as a catchall for problem inmates who couldn’t otherwise be categorized.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

This is someone who recently wrote a paper categorizing the ways AI might kill everyone, applying a mathematician’s instinct for order to the apocalypse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

Apps are great for tracking spending and automatically categorizing — making it easy to see that you spent this much more on food than clothes, or what you’re putting toward subscriptions.

From MarketWatch ● May 14, 2026

For men, same-sex socialization must also deal with the conventional oppression against homosexuality — a categorizing term invented when Caillebotte was 20 and in common usage by the time he died.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2025

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

From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2025

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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