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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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Very often, dogs categorized as pit bulls aren’t even actual pit bulls, and are just penalized for looking a certain way.
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These same tools could be used to deploy militarized ICE on immigrant communities while data centers in our neighborhoods extract, categorize and process it all.
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Our mind is scanning, selecting, and categorizing stimuli.
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Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2025
These same tools could be used to deploy militarized ICE on immigrant communities while data centers in our neighborhoods extract, categorize and process it all.
—Robin Reichhardt, Denver Post, 25 Nov. 2025
Our mind is scanning, selecting, and categorizing stimuli.
—Literary Hub, 25 Nov. 2025
Over a thousand exercises are categorized by type, difficulty level, and target muscles.
—Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 24 Nov. 2025
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“Categorize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/categorize. Accessed 28 Nov. 2025.
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categorize
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cat·e·go·rize
ˈkat-i-gə-ˌrīz 
categorized; categorizing
: to put into a category : classify
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