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categorize

[kat-i-guh-rahyz] / ˈkæt ɪ gəˌraɪz /


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One person might describe feeling unusually cold, another might mention constant chills, while a clinician could categorize those experiences using a specific medical term.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

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

“Consumers tend to categorize prices into ranges, so having a price be under $10 can feel different than a price that is $10 and above, even when the actual monetary difference is negligible.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

Gender, a grammatical term for “kind,” describes the ways some languages categorize nouns and pronouns as masculine, feminine, or neuter.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

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

Mr. Buck analyzed more than 400 readings from 75 course syllabi and categorized them as “traditional,” “progressive,” “therapeutic,” or “critical,” meaning critical race and other social justice theories.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

And finally, she categorized either by their weights in the PCE or by treating each category individually.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 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

Why, a biologist might ask, were living things categorized in this manner?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Their settings and subjects further reveal that categorizing Church narrowly as a member of the Hudson River movement overlooks the fact that his canvases reflect a far broader swath of the world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

The software also sends reminder emails and phone alerts to prompt people to keep up with categorizing transactions that are automatically pulled in or inputting new ones manually.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

They started categorizing me with sad and sentimental music.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2025

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

From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2025

Children can explore the timbre, production, and material of the instruments to come up with their own ways of categorizing them.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin




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