categorization

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as in classification

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Recent Examples of categorization At two hours and 40 minutes, the film defies categorization, blending musical, comedic, dramatic, and satirical elements into a tumultuous examination of the American spirit. — Air Mail, 4 July 2026 The World Health Organization’s definition of adolescence from 10-19 years of age is not a categorization routinely used for surgical decision-making. — Kavitha Ranganathan, STAT, 29 June 2026 An operations manager pilots expense categorization. — Penta Rao Marapatla, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026 Genre categorization is an art, not a science. — Joe Reid, Vulture, 20 June 2026 But the movies these auteurs deliver defy categorization and that presents its own challenges. — Brent Lang, Variety, 18 June 2026 On the other wall, red Componibili storage units by Anna Castelli Ferrierihold hold color samples, swatches and all the small things that resist categorization. — Aditi Sharma, Architectural Digest, 13 June 2026 Despite being a major 20th-century modernist, Galentz’s canvases have long-evaded definitive categorization. — The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 12 June 2026 Spark, who was born in 1918 and died in 2006, had a talent for writing wicked little books that defy easy categorization; her coming-of-age stories feel like horror stories, her horror stories feel like love stories, and her love stories feel like acid satire. — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 10 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for categorization
  1. classification
  2. cataloging
  3. codification
  4. indexing
Noun
  • Clinch County has won six football state championships this century, all in Class A, the Georgia High School Association’s classification for the smallest schools.
    — Todd Holcomb, AJC.com, 6 July 2026
  • Elsewhere, general classification contenders Juan Ayuso (Lidl-Trek), Remco Evenepoel and Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe) and Paul Seixas (Decathlon CMA CGM) all produced good performances to stay within 40 seconds of the leading pair.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 4 July 2026
Definition of classification
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  • The early copy remained tucked away in Britain’s National Archives until a volunteer cataloging records from the American Revolutionary War came across it in May among the papers of Royal Navy captains.
    — Elmira Aliieva, NBC news, 3 July 2026
  • Per ARTnews, Spain’s Court of Auditors has been critical of the Reina Sofía’s cataloguing methods for years, and government officials are now asking for a physical accounting of the over 25,000 artworks in the museum; as well as comprehensive financial valuations.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 22 May 2026
Definition of cataloging
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  • The codification of what became soccer Public school graduates took their versions of the game with them to the next level.
    — Thomas Adam, The Conversation, 29 May 2026
  • Three Americans died in the 1996 incident that led to sanctions and the codification of the trade embargo on Cuba that remains in place today.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 20 May 2026
Definition of codification
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  • Direct indexing means owning the individual stocks that make up an index, like the S&P 500 or the Russell 1000, rather than buying the index through a mutual fund or ETF.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 1 July 2026
  • There are comments about battery life being worse — but that may be down to indexing as the release is just hours old.
    — David Phelan, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
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