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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

But this opacity means there is no agreed-on way to define, measure or categorize private credit.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 29, 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

And then there are some things—an orange life vest, that one long paddle, a pair of plastic goggles, a lantern with cracked glass—I don’t know how to categorize.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

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

The ISU categorizes somersault-like jumps as “choreographic elements.”

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 12, 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

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

And finally, she categorized either by their weights in the PCE or by treating each category individually.

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

Kashkari categorized the labor market as decent, but mostly moving sideways.

From Barron's Jun. 26, 2026

These interpretations may sometimes be relevant, but when they appear reflexively, patients stop feeling understood and start feeling categorized and analyzed.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 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

I began writing about the process of going from agency to agency, being categorized, being advised of my shortcomings, and having dire warnings sent my way.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

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

That's the lower limit of categorizing objects on the Torino Scale.

From Salon Mar. 3, 2025

During early assessments of impact risk, Apophis reached a rating of Torino Scale 4, which is a scale for categorizing potential Earth impact events.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 19, 2025

“I’m categorizing them according to attraction type,” said Marjory.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein




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