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Once the dry clutter is gone, what remains tends to sort itself into a few familiar categories:

From Salon • May 5, 2026

“It took a huge amount of work to recognize just a very small number of categories of objects that Roomba might encounter,” says Jones.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

Amazon has made numerous announcements in the past 15 years that have driven significant short-term stock drops in categories like grocery and pharmacy, he said.

From MarketWatch • May 4, 2026

The newly confirmed planets include several especially interesting categories.

From Science Daily • May 3, 2026

And they distinguish both of these from semantic categories and roles like action, physical object, possessor, doer, and done-to, which refer to what the referents of the words are doing in the world.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker