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categorize

[kat-i-guh-rahyz] / ˈkæt ɪ gəˌraɪz /


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Ms. Dixon even tries to categorize the different types of artistic offense.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 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

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

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

From Los Angeles Times 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

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

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

The A&E network categorized “Desert Law,” the TV series about the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, as a modest success, a spokesman said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 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

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

I began writing about the process of going from agency to agency, being categorized, being advised of my shortcomings, and having dire warnings sent my way.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

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

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

The human data annotator team at xAI plays a key role in teaching Grok to understand the world by labeling, contextualizing, and categorizing raw data used to train the chatbot.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 15, 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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