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categorize

[kat-i-guh-rahyz] / ˈkæt ɪ gəˌraɪz /


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“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

Central bank watchers like to categorize board members as hawks or doves.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 20, 2026

This administration is not the first to use AI; federal agencies have been gradually stitching the technology into their work for years, including to translate documents, analyze data and categorize public comments, among other uses.

From Salon Feb. 2, 2026

Many natives, seeking to categorize the newcomers, were open to the possibility that they might belong to the realm of the supernatural.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

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

An algorithm known as a classifier automatically categorizes content, allowing Character.AI to identify words that might violate its rules and filter conversations.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 25, 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

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

The play was categorized by the Tony committee as a revival, but it’s really an original drama — one that gave rise to one of the most enthralling productions of the year.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 8, 2026

A spokesperson for Booking.com says: "If a particular region can be categorized as disputed or impacted by conflict, we add information to our platform to help ensure that travellers can make a well-informed choice."

From BBC May 24, 2026

Regardless of how stocks are categorized, the above table supports the notion that for long-term investors building up nest eggs, stocks have outperformed bonds by wide margins.

From MarketWatch Apr. 28, 2026

Eventually, they categorized proportions into 10 different classes, with names like the harmonic mean.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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

Agencies must submit “contingency plans” categorizing which employees are essential on a standardized worksheet.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 15, 2025

Betts was kept out of the lineup on Tuesday, Roberts categorizing the day off as “more of a mental day.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 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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