classification

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This comes ahead of MSCI’s decision next week to determine if Indonesia will hold on to its emerging-market status or drop to a frontier-market classification, a demotion that analysts say will spur heavy capital outflows.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026

The object’s classification as a sednoid also means the gravitational influence of Neptune has little to no effect on it.

From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026

The reduction in categories comes amid broader national debates over identity classification, institutional representation, and how government systems reflect demographic complexity.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026

The trust also developed its own classification system for serious incidents, outside the framework used across the NHS in England.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

In England, it was already possible to search by fingerprint; a complex system of classification meant that a new fingerprint could be compared to similar fingerprints on file in minutes.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day