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categorize

[kat-i-guh-rahyz] / ˈkæt ɪ gəˌraɪz /


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Companies aren’t required to categorize perks, so reporters created a taxonomy of nine types of perks, including an “other” category.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

Apps like Rocket Money can link bank accounts, categorize spending habits and flag unused subscriptions.

From MarketWatch Mar. 31, 2026

McAlpine acknowledges that her film has been difficult to categorize.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 23, 2026

This administration is not the first to use AI; federal agencies have been gradually stitching the technology into their work for years, including to translate documents, analyze data and categorize public comments, among other uses.

From Salon Feb. 2, 2026

Many natives, seeking to categorize the newcomers, were open to the possibility that they might belong to the realm of the supernatural.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

Naylor categorizes about 30% of shark species as endangered, largely due to overfishing.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 19, 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

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

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

SpaceX is set to join the Russell 1000 index after Friday’s close, categorized as 90.4% growth and 9.6% value.

From Barron's Jun. 26, 2026

These interpretations may sometimes be relevant, but when they appear reflexively, patients stop feeling understood and start feeling categorized and analyzed.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

A helpful chart from the city categorized every home as a Tudor, English, or French style and laid out the appropriate colors for architects and homeowners alike.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

This is someone who recently wrote a paper categorizing the ways AI might kill everyone, applying a mathematician’s instinct for order to the apocalypse.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 1, 2026

Apps are great for tracking spending and automatically categorizing — making it easy to see that you spent this much more on food than clothes, or what you’re putting toward subscriptions.

From MarketWatch May 14, 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

“I’m categorizing them according to attraction type,” said Marjory.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein




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