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Authorities were able to track down 5,269 people in this category and switch their names to the “found” column.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

ACE awarded £12.23m in funding where an applicant name, project title or category contained the word "comedy" between 2010/11 to 2024/25, according to the government.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

Ever since it emerged out of California’s skateboard shops and from the streets of Flatbush in Brooklyn, N.Y., in the 1980s, however, this category has exploded into a multibillion-dollar retail business.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

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

But when the category is "Male or Family,” we have to stop and think—even if it’s only for a few hundred milliseconds—before we decide what to do with a word like "Merchant.”

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell