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categorize

[kat-i-guh-rahyz] / ˈkæt ɪ gəˌraɪz /


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Large language models such as GPT and Gemini are changing that equation by allowing researchers to process and categorize vast amounts of text more consistently and quickly.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 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

“Consumers tend to categorize prices into ranges, so having a price be under $10 can feel different than a price that is $10 and above, even when the actual monetary difference is negligible.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

His particular brand of cultural fluency — a rapid-fire mix of food, fashion, basketball, politics and pop culture — is what made the “Gua Bao Bad Boy” impossible to categorize.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

I could picture his excitement at finding a flower he couldn't categorize, growing in some lonely, desolate part of Iraq.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

The study, published in Nature's Communications Earth & Environment, categorizes warming periods that occur ahead of and following MHWs.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

Just 16% of respondents expressed a state of confidence about their money, a separate bucket that the survey categorizes as financially “fulfilled.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

Naylor categorizes about 30% of shark species as endangered, largely due to overfishing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026

Wall Street categorizes metals as precious, base/industrial, and maybe “other” for the weird ones.

From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 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

Over the years, the ubiquity of “More Than a Feeling” unfairly categorized “Boston” as an arena-rock tourist trap.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

Using the Nova classification system, researchers categorized 81% of them as ultra-processed.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

It has remained on the menu despite being categorized as a “limited time” item when it first launched in 2022.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026

Teledyne, often categorized as an industrial-sensing company, is embedded in the counterdrone detection chain through systems already operational in active theaters.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026

We categorized all of the peanuts by mentioning their different exteriors.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers

I think the job is to get rid of categorizing and make it more fluid.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 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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