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categorize

[kat-i-guh-rahyz] / ˈkæt ɪ gəˌraɪz /


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One person might describe feeling unusually cold, another might mention constant chills, while a clinician could categorize those experiences using a specific medical term.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

Particularly if you work across creative, intellectual or interdisciplinary worlds where people struggle to categorize what you actually “do.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

He talked about spending time in Mexico and realizing how much depth and labor went into dishes that diners elsewhere might casually categorize as “Mexican food.”

From Salon Sep. 1, 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

Lists of figures—which made up much of the substance of rhetorical handbooks down through the ages—are an attempt to categorize or give a system to the impossibly wide range of things that language can do.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

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

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

From Barron's Dec. 26, 2025

She already has some ideas, which she categorizes as “baddie florals.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 5, 2025

Among left-leaning Americans, there's no dominant religious categorization, at least in the manner that the media categorizes them.

From Salon Oct. 18, 2024

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

Since individual equity futures are legally categorized as security futures, companies like Kalshi that want to issue them need approval from both the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 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

A helpful chart from the city categorized every home as a Tudor, English, or French style and laid out the appropriate colors for architects and homeowners alike.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

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

I often wonder: Does their categorizing need extend to the subatomic realm?

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 6, 2026

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

Stopping before the narrow garage, he sniffed the fumes from Paradise with great sensory pleasure, the protruding hairs in his nostrils analyzing, cataloguing, categorizing, and classifying the distinct odors of hot dog, mustard, and lubricant.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole




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