- present tense form of categorize (3rd person singular).
categorizes
Example Sentences
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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
These women all have something in common: They have a body mass index that categorizes them as obese or severely obese.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 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
