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categorize

[kat-i-guh-rahyz] / ˈkæt ɪ gəˌraɪz /


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Large language models such as GPT and Gemini are changing that equation by allowing researchers to process and categorize vast amounts of text more consistently and quickly.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

Other related lawsuits are pending across the U.S., so some legal experts predict that the Supreme Court will make the ultimate call on how to regulate or at least categorize these platforms.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 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

Companies aren’t required to categorize perks, so reporters created a taxonomy of nine types of perks, including an “other” category.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

The system described how to categorize living things on the earth, but did not ascribe an underlying logic to its organization.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

The International Union for Conservation of Nature red list categorizes lions as vulnerable to extinction.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 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

Chinese leader Xi Jinping wanted his upcoming trip to the U.S. to be categorized as a “state visit,” the highest tier of diplomatic pageantry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Using the Nova classification system, researchers categorized 81% of them as ultra-processed.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 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

We categorized all of the peanuts by mentioning their different exteriors.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers

Nearly four-fifths of respondents said that gas prices present some sort of strain, with 34% categorizing it as a major strain and 44% calling it a minor strain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2026

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

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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