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plural of category

as in types

one of the units into which a whole is divided on the basis of a common characteristic divide the essays into categories based on difficulty of comprehension

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Recent Examples of categories Global companies already dominate the world's fastest-growing major consumer market across 20 product categories from soft drinks and spirits to savory snacks, detergents, and diapers, the report said. —

Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 7 May 2026 Each puzzle has exactly one solution, so watch out for words or items that seem to belong to multiple categories! —

Mark Cooper, New York Times, 7 May 2026 Those are the categories the TLC tracks—the expenses families cannot easily avoid and that determine whether a household can maintain basic stability. —

Gene Ludwig, Fortune, 6 May 2026 The other three categories are what take a property past the surface. —

Lauren Schuster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 May 2026 Delta and Alaska were also in the top three in both categories. —

Zach Wichter, USA Today, 6 May 2026 Having led at the nomination stage making it into 16 categories, the picture also won Best Actor for Romano, Original Screenplay, Editing, Original Song, Casting and Producer. —

Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 6 May 2026 To do this well, consider Gallup’s four primary categories underpinning engagement. —

Big Think, 29 Apr. 2026 Switching performer categories is hardly unusual, with more than 50 successful cases across all acting races in Emmy history. —

Clayton Davis, Variety, 29 Apr. 2026

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These types of vulnerabilities can be exploited through normal user behavior, such as browsing to a web page.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 7 May 2026
Further, the Nixon-era conspirators in real life were tedious corporate types with names like Haldeman and Ehrlichman who Alan Pakula, the director, found impossible to cast.

— Peter Bart, Deadline, 7 May 2026