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In linguistics, researchers describe individual words as categories called "types," while each appearance of a word in text is known as a "token."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
The $100,000 prize pool is split between the men's and women's overall podiums, across seven age-group categories.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
It’s the first time since the onset of the pandemic in 2020 that all three hedge-fund categories registered declines greater than 1% on the same day.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
Those measures include performance indicators in categories like people, culture, operations and product.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Recall from chapter 4 that grammatical categories like adjective are not the same thing as grammatical functions like modifier and complement.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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