Examples of categorize in a Sentence
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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It should have been categorized as a suspicious death and treated as such.
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Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2026
Governments still may fly flags that are not categorized as religious, political or ideological.
—Idaho Statesman, 7 May 2026
Your mind can categorize your to-do list as either paying down debt or building credit.
—Big Think, 4 May 2026
There’s a lot more in the text of the Voting Rights Act that categorizes the relationship between race, political cohesion and voting power.
—Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 1 May 2026
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Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2026
Governments still may fly flags that are not categorized as religious, political or ideological.
—Idaho Statesman, 7 May 2026
Your mind can categorize your to-do list as either paying down debt or building credit.
—Big Think, 4 May 2026
There’s a lot more in the text of the Voting Rights Act that categorizes the relationship between race, political cohesion and voting power.
—Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 1 May 2026
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“Categorize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/categorize. Accessed 12 May. 2026.
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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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