classify
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Despite largely controlling the tasks and pay, the platforms typically classify the workers as independent contractors rather than employees.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
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
All of them must have pedals to classify as an e-bike.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 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
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But, he says, it has successfully shown a ban "can be done" though classifies it as "a bit of an experiment".
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 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
The U.S. imports about $3 trillion of manufactured goods each year, and McKinsey classifies about a quarter, or about $750 billion, of those as the country’s “Achilles’ heel.”
From Barron's ● May 26, 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
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This is one benefit of doing classified work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The school’s population includes about 30 students classified as homeless.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
The animal has recently been taken off the international endangered species list and is now classified as near-threatened.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
The meteorite was classified as a CM1/2 carbonaceous chondrite, placing it between the petrographic CM1 and CM2 categories.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
Halliday’s boyhood home on Middletown couldn’t really be classified as “neglected,” but maybe he was talking about a different house in his hometown?
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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"It is therefore highly probable that we will end up classifying it as a megafire."
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
Later in the fall, OpenAI changed the designation of GPT-5, classifying it as less dangerous.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 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
In the second half of the 19th Century, photography became one of the British Empire's most persuasive instruments for knowing - and classifying - India.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026
For Geisbert, identifying hot strains and classifying the tribes of viruses was like sorting butterflies or collecting flowers.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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