Thesaurus results for CATEGORIES

noun

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 Rooms The resort’s 130 rooms and villas are split across six categories, and each has its own outdoor pool fed by the hot spring. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Nov. 2026 The accusations surfaced when the general manager discovered a check posted in two different categories in an area of the company’s accounting software that dealt with profit loss statements, the warrant affidavit said. — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 11 Nov. 2026 According to Stars and Stripes, the Pentagon divides the casualties between two operational categories. — Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Nov. 2026 Autobiographical writing is often slotted into easily marketable categories—the solitary odyssey, the bereavement chronicle, the trauma plot. — Namara Smith, New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2026 Here are our bets for who’s likely to show up in the Grammys’ top four categories, with potential honorees listed in alphabetical order. — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2026 State guidance from Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles treats golf carts and low-speed vehicles as separate categories. — Kaitlyn Gomez, Miami Herald, 11 Nov. 2026 This year, 30 in-state breweries submitted 226 beers across 25 categories. — Rashad Alexander, Kansas City Star, 11 Nov. 2026 Brothers Joseph, left, and Joshua Tenjiku, of Hinsdale, both won first place awards in their age categories at an international music competition in October at Carnegie Hall in New York. — Chuck Fieldman, Chicago Tribune, 10 Nov. 2026

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The model predicted that this effect was concentrated in those cells rather than occurring broadly across other cell types.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 12 Nov. 2026
The new model is designed to capture those differences, predicting the effects of genetic variants on individual cell types and states.

— Robert Hart, The Verge, 11 Nov. 2026

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Dragons, sea creatures and animals of all kinds will come to life with lights at the Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens this holiday season for the event’s seventh year.

— Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Nov. 2026
Beloved seventies patterns of all kinds are back in this season, from stripes to animal print.

— Michel Mejía, Glamour, 5 Nov. 2026