category

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Think of it the way you might think of eggs: not as a single category, but as a spectrum of doneness, of mood, of purpose.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

Thirty-eight of the 59 companies in this category saw a decrease in mean earnings per shares estimates.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Over the past 30 years, the fund has returned 8.7% a year, ranking it in the top 15% of its category.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Both fall under the category of "mundane job simulations", an ever-growing gaming genre in which people carry out routine and - on the face of it - not very exciting tasks.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Thus the category ‘discovery’ proved to be capable of disseminating across the various local cultures of Renaissance Europe, but it did not fare well elsewhere.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton