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categorize

[kat-i-guh-rahyz] / ˈkæt ɪ gəˌraɪz /


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One person might describe feeling unusually cold, another might mention constant chills, while a clinician could categorize those experiences using a specific medical term.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

He talked about spending time in Mexico and realizing how much depth and labor went into dishes that diners elsewhere might casually categorize as “Mexican food.”

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026

Ms. Dixon even tries to categorize the different types of artistic offense.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

That includes the way scientists categorize species within Homo as well as Australopithecus and Paranthropus, all of which lived during the past 5 million years.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

And then there are some things—an orange life vest, that one long paddle, a pair of plastic goggles, a lantern with cracked glass—I don’t know how to categorize.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

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

These women all have something in common: They have a body mass index that categorizes them as obese or severely obese.

From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2024

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

Since individual equity futures are legally categorized as security futures, companies like Kalshi that want to issue them need approval from both the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Using the Nova classification system, researchers categorized 81% of them as ultra-processed.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

The study also categorized unemployment claims by age and found that a significant portion of claims were from those aged 36 to 65, signaling that AI’s effect doesn’t only affect early-career jobs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 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

Eddie looks inside boxes, and touches things I put on the big table because I haven’t categorized them yet.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

I think the job is to get rid of categorizing and make it more fluid.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

Their settings and subjects further reveal that categorizing Church narrowly as a member of the Hudson River movement overlooks the fact that his canvases reflect a far broader swath of the world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 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

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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