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classify

[klas-uh-fahy] / ˈklæs əˌfaɪ /


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The invitation comes two days after a federal appeals court upheld the Pentagon's decision to classify Anthropic as a supply chain risk, which prohibits the United States military from using its models.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

In a recent paper, Kirk evaluated whether Scottish people would classify recorded human and synthetic speech as human or AI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Merlin, meanwhile, is using AI-powered cameras to detect and classify objects.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

Over the past 50 years, advances in the understanding of evolution have significantly changed the way scientists organize and classify life.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

I’d never been to church and had never stopped to classify my thoughts into good ones and bad ones.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

They developed the Nova system, which classifies the degree to which a food product is processed, from minimal to ultraprocessed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

On its website, it advertises an antidrone package that detects and classifies incoming drones through artificial intelligence and engages them if hooked up to the right air-defense system.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

The International Agency for Research on Cancer classifies the chemical as a probable carcinogen and has linked exposure to bladder cancer, multiple myeloma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

The UK government classifies data centres as critical national infrastructure and, according to recent Senedd research, "most jobs in the UK" are now reliant on them.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

He learns the endless terms, the vocabulary that classifies the details of ancient buildings, writing them on separate index cards and making illustrations on the back: architrave, entablature, tympanum, voussoir.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Last month, the county Office of the Medical Examiner-Coroner classified Aurora’s death as a homicide.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

Anorthosite is classified as an intrusive igneous rock, meaning it forms when molten material cools and solidifies beneath Earth's surface.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

DiGenova again fumed when officials in Washington refused to set up a room in the Fort Pierce, Fla., office where prosecutors could securely review and store highly classified material, some of the people said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Readings above 150 are classified as unhealthy, while levels above 300 are considered hazardous.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

I open up a search engine and point to a classified URL.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu

The CDC has not yet included the Pennsylvania deaths in its national tally while it reviews the records and develops standardized criteria for classifying measles deaths.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

Researchers were able to distinguish conditions including viral hepatitis and metabolic-associated liver disease, correctly classifying about 85% of patients.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 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

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

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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