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This software lets you categorize your photographs in many different ways.
Their opinions can be categorized as conservative.
Birds are categorized by type in this field guide.
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Further, with both One Thing at a Time and Dangerous: The Double Album categorized as country efforts, Wallen is the first artist to claim two year-end No. 1s on the all-genre Billboard 200 Albums recap with a country album.
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Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 21 Nov. 2023
The viruses in the study are both categorized as bacteriophages.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 9 Nov. 2023
All of her minimalist fashion collections can be categorized exactly to this new trend.
—Anna Bader, Glamour, 25 Oct. 2023
Turbulence is typically categorized by four levels of severity, according to the National Weather Service: light, moderate, severe, and extreme.
—Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 17 Nov. 2023
Legal experts said the decision by prosecutors to pursue terrorism charges marks a significant shift in how certain acts of violence are categorized.
—Vjosa Isai, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
Initially, food agencies didn’t know how to categorize the product, but landed on a rice wine.
—WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
In 1960, Pew Research Center notes, Americans were able to choose their own race and in 2000, the census changed to allow respondents to choose more than one race to categorize themselves.
—Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
But Parton doesn’t sweat the small things — and with a rich career like hers, those offers can be categorized as minor.
—Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Nov. 2023
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Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 21 Nov. 2023
The viruses in the study are both categorized as bacteriophages.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 9 Nov. 2023
All of her minimalist fashion collections can be categorized exactly to this new trend.
—Anna Bader, Glamour, 25 Oct. 2023
Turbulence is typically categorized by four levels of severity, according to the National Weather Service: light, moderate, severe, and extreme.
—Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 17 Nov. 2023
Legal experts said the decision by prosecutors to pursue terrorism charges marks a significant shift in how certain acts of violence are categorized.
—Vjosa Isai, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
Initially, food agencies didn’t know how to categorize the product, but landed on a rice wine.
—WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
In 1960, Pew Research Center notes, Americans were able to choose their own race and in 2000, the census changed to allow respondents to choose more than one race to categorize themselves.
—Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
But Parton doesn’t sweat the small things — and with a rich career like hers, those offers can be categorized as minor.
—Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Nov. 2023
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categorize
verb
cat·e·go·rize
ˈkat-i-gə-ˌrīz 
categorized; categorizing
: to put into a category : classify
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