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categorize

[kat-i-guh-rahyz] / ˈkæt ɪ gəˌraɪz /


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Ms. Dixon even tries to categorize the different types of artistic offense.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 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

Artists, she noted wryly, often prove difficult to categorize within bureaucratic systems.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 2026

There’s been little new science on the 19 peptides since the FDA’s 2023 decision to categorize them as unsafe.

From Salon Apr. 4, 2026

Though the technique is the exact opposite of most techniques of mysticism it probably is a mystical discipline, tending towards the experience of Immanence; but I can’t categorize any practice of the Handdarata with certainty.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

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

Over the years, the ubiquity of “More Than a Feeling” unfairly categorized “Boston” as an arena-rock tourist trap.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

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

From Science Daily Jul. 29, 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

Kashkari categorized the labor market as decent, but mostly moving sideways.

From Barron's Jun. 26, 2026

Of all the black employees working in research at Langley in the early 1960s, there were still only five categorized as engineers and sixteen with the title of mathematician.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

Their settings and subjects further reveal that categorizing Church narrowly as a member of the Hudson River movement overlooks the fact that his canvases reflect a far broader swath of the world.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

The software also sends reminder emails and phone alerts to prompt people to keep up with categorizing transactions that are automatically pulled in or inputting new ones manually.

From MarketWatch Aug. 11, 2026

About a third of the earliest records from the county had no data categorizing the type of structure, and The Times extracted that information, as best as possible, from the freehand notes.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 17, 2025

That's the lower limit of categorizing objects on the Torino Scale.

From Salon Mar. 3, 2025

Children can explore the timbre, production, and material of the instruments to come up with their own ways of categorizing them.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin




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