- plural of category.
categories
Example Sentences
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The PCE inflation rate draws on PPI data for categories including airfare and portfolio-management services, which are combined with a big swath of stats from the consumer-inflation report.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Both categories have shown declines in the past 12 months.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Two of every three new “Love Island” traders are women, and the platform says there are three times as many female traders in “Love Island” markets as in its other categories.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
In the last year the targets for the most urgent, life-threatening calls have changed, with the introduction of "purple" and "red" categories which focus more on patient outcomes rather than how quickly the paramedics arrive.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Gordon’s Skill Learning Sequence is based on two main categories of learning: Discrimination and Inference.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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