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categorize

[kat-i-guh-rahyz] / ˈkæt ɪ gəˌraɪz /


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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

Soon, the word became a stand-in for “catchy,” shorthand that could be used to categorize just about any song with a single word.

From Salon May 10, 2026

“To categorize this almost like a self-driving car is inaccurate,” Thorrington said.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 31, 2026

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

From MarketWatch Mar. 31, 2026

Then I categorize every item as many different ways as I can think of.

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements

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

Naylor categorizes about 30% of shark species as endangered, largely due to overfishing.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 19, 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

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

SpaceX is set to join the Russell 1000 index after Friday’s close, categorized as 90.4% growth and 9.6% value.

From Barron's Jun. 26, 2026

Sculpture is categorized according to whether it is carved or modeled and whether it is a relief or a free-standing statue.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

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

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

“I’m categorizing them according to attraction type,” said Marjory.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein




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