- plural of category.
categories
Example Sentences
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Calls are put into categories - purple and red as the most urgent, orange for things like heart attacks and strokes, then yellow and green for lower priority calls.
From BBC ● 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
The AI data-center spending binge is helping to mask some of the weakness in the traditional categories of commercial and industrial buildings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 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
