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classify

[klas-uh-fahy] / ˈklæs əˌfaɪ /


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It was a big enough job for the two scholars to classify all the known musical instruments of the world.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

For much of Wales and Northern England, the three-day run of temperatures of 25C or above required to classify as a heatwave will not be met.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

Critics say Japan also differs from many other countries by having out-of-date building regulations that can classify data centres as offices and not industrial facilities.

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

Researchers classify them according to three main features: hardness, the way they respond to strain, and the structure formed by ions and proteins.

From Science Daily Jul. 16, 2026

The only cases that were impossible to classify were those of José Arcadio Segundo and Aureliano Segundo.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The United States for years refused contact with Hamas, which it classifies as a terrorist organisation and which led the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel that sparked the Gaza war.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

OpenAI classifies model risk into two tiers, with “critical” representing the highest level of capability threat, above “high.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Food and Drug Administration classifies zinc oxide as safe and effective.

From Science Daily Jul. 20, 2026

That’s far from the 20% drop that classifies a bear market, Mayfield pointed out.

From MarketWatch Jul. 12, 2026

In Plato’s allegory of the metals, the philosopher classifies men into groups of gold, silver, and lead.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

And especially welcomed given that three-quarters of USC’s previous football home, the John McKay Center, could be classified as “subterranean.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

Data centres were classified as critical in 2024, meaning they get extra government support during incidents like cyber-attacks or extreme weather.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

"We do not know if it was intentional or unintentional. So the investigators are still working through that right now. More than likely, this fire will be classified as undetermined."

From Barron's Aug. 24, 2026

When part of the emitted light is classified as useful work, the theory moves smoothly into the semi-classical limit.

From Science Daily Aug. 19, 2026

In particular, Afroasiatic speakers mostly prove to be people who would be classified as whites or blacks, Nilo-Saharan and Niger-Congo speakers prove to be blacks, Khoisan speakers Khoisan, and Austronesian speakers Indonesian.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Modern taxonomy, the science of naming and classifying organisms, increasingly attempts to reflect actual evolutionary relationships by grouping species according to shared ancestry.

From Science Daily Aug. 20, 2026

The region, made up of mountains surrounded by a desert steppe, receives just over 100 millimeters of annual rainfall, classifying it as an desert.

From Barron's Jun. 15, 2026

In Kentucky, lawmakers recently passed a bill classifying TV-viewing patterns as “sensitive data” deserving of broader legal protections and transparency measures.

From Slate May 3, 2026

"We are also continuing to work with providers who are in the process of correctly classifying courses," a spokesperson added.

From BBC Apr. 20, 2026

Aureliano had finished classifying the alphabet of the parchments, so that when Melquíades asked him if he had discovered the language in which they had been written he did not hesitate to answer.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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