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categorize

[kat-i-guh-rahyz] / ˈkæt ɪ gəˌraɪz /


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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

There’s been little new science on the 19 peptides since the FDA’s 2023 decision to categorize them as unsafe.

From Salon Apr. 4, 2026

Apps like Rocket Money can link bank accounts, categorize spending habits and flag unused subscriptions.

From MarketWatch Mar. 31, 2026

McAlpine acknowledges that her film has been difficult to categorize.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 23, 2026

Examples of different ways children can categorize instruments.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

Taiwan’s Olympic athletes must compete as “Chinese Taipei” and the World Trade Organization categorizes the semiconductor powerhouse as a “separate customs territory.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 3, 2026

The ISU categorizes somersault-like jumps as “choreographic elements.”

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 12, 2026

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

From Barron's Dec. 26, 2025

Yeh categorizes sweet salads with affection and a wink: cookie salads, Jell-O salads, candy bar salads, fluffs.

From Salon Apr. 27, 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

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

From Science Daily Jul. 29, 2026

The study also categorized unemployment claims by age and found that a significant portion of claims were from those aged 36 to 65, signaling that AI’s effect doesn’t only affect early-career jobs.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 4, 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

Kashkari categorized the labor market as decent, but mostly moving sideways.

From Barron's Jun. 26, 2026

Of all the black employees working in research at Langley in the early 1960s, there were still only five categorized as engineers and sixteen with the title of mathematician.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

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

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

Researching the impacts of categorizing Brazilians as Hispanic was among the recommendations a Census Bureau advisory committee made last month.

From Seattle Times May 27, 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




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