Thesaurus results for CATEGORIES

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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 The categories included multiple race distances, fun runs, road cycling events and sprint triathlons. —

Ryan Murphy, IndyStar, 1 Apr. 2026 Experts say such failures highlight new categories of risk. —

Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 1 Apr. 2026 Gemini 3 Pro exhibited the most extreme behavior overall, engaging in all four categories of misaligned behavior and exfiltrating a peer’s model weights in up to 97% of trials. —

Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2026 Producers submit their products for consideration in a variety of 18 categories including pickles, preserves, cheese, chocolate and even fish. —

Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 1 Apr. 2026 These categories include young children, older adults, pregnant women and people with weakened immune systems. —

Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 1 Apr. 2026 Being named a finalist is a significant achievement, Dolch said, as each of these finalists are in the top-5 for their respective categories and are invited to attend the James Beard Restaurant and Chef Awards Ceremony June 15 in Chicago. —

Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 1 Apr. 2026 The road movie by Francesco Sossai, which originally world premiered in Cannes Un Certain Regard in 2025, is nominated in 16 categories. —

Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 1 Apr. 2026 Soccer's governing body did not announce which games and price categories were available, leaving potential ticket buyers to search themselves on a FIFA ticketing site that often took hours to enter. —

ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026

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Over the past four decades that followed its formation, Hezbollah has received billions of dollars in funding as well as different types of Iranian weapons.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Mar. 2026
These are low-density regions, not regions completely devoid of all types of matter.

— Big Think, Big Think, 26 Mar. 2026