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Recent Examples of categorization
Under this categorization, there is now a legal basis for medical patients to travel with qualifying medical marijuana products consistent with the rule, Manzuri said.
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Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026
Customer reviews frequently praise Origin’s tracking accuracy compared to competing budgeting apps, though some users report occasional issues with incorrect transaction categorization.
—Amy Deyoung, USA Today, 20 May 2026
But experts said this categorization neglects key hormonal and metabolic components of the condition.
—Jenna Anderson, Health, 13 May 2026
Experts say this fluidity could fuel the industry’s aim to expand beyond borders and neat categorization.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 2 May 2026
Meryl Streep‘s Miranda Priestly has always resisted easy categorization, as a prickly boss whose foundation is ultimately much more understanding.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 2 May 2026
The Biden administration also moved to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule III drug, though the rule was not finalized and the drug remained at the most severe categorization.
—Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
The crescendos of Tines’s operatic bass-baritone bleed through the entirety of the Geffen like thunder, concretizing the space into a heartbeat of resistance that reanimates the categorization of witness.
—Horace D. Ballard, Artforum, 22 Apr. 2026
To this day, her work resists categorization.
—Patricia Zohn, Air Mail, 28 Mar. 2026
Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026
Customer reviews frequently praise Origin’s tracking accuracy compared to competing budgeting apps, though some users report occasional issues with incorrect transaction categorization.
—Amy Deyoung, USA Today, 20 May 2026
But experts said this categorization neglects key hormonal and metabolic components of the condition.
—Jenna Anderson, Health, 13 May 2026
Experts say this fluidity could fuel the industry’s aim to expand beyond borders and neat categorization.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 2 May 2026
Meryl Streep‘s Miranda Priestly has always resisted easy categorization, as a prickly boss whose foundation is ultimately much more understanding.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 2 May 2026
The Biden administration also moved to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule III drug, though the rule was not finalized and the drug remained at the most severe categorization.
—Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
The crescendos of Tines’s operatic bass-baritone bleed through the entirety of the Geffen like thunder, concretizing the space into a heartbeat of resistance that reanimates the categorization of witness.
—Horace D. Ballard, Artforum, 22 Apr. 2026
To this day, her work resists categorization.
—Patricia Zohn, Air Mail, 28 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for categorization
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Rather than a sweeping blockade, the campaign should rely on port-state control, sanctions enforcement, customs law, insurance and classification requirements, environmental protection, safety inspections, and flag-state coordination.—
David A. Deptula,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
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County officials noted that while most of those positions were occupied when the reductions were identified, vacancies existed elsewhere in the department within the same classifications.—
Reeti Malhotra,
Sacbee.com,
29 May 2026
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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
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Among them is the demanding task of turning a pile of artifacts into a museum collection, which includes cataloging, researching, describing and photographing.—
Denise Crosby,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Apr. 2026
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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
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Since the 2000s, researchers have added a new set of tools, including ethnographic in-site analysis, image and video codification techniques, phenomenological interviewing, and big data collecting techniques.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
27 Apr. 2026
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Social networks are also spaces where cyberactivism is increasingly present, namely through the indexing of content in information streaming through hashtags.—
Paulo Nuno VicenteAll,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
26 May 2026
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Also, the annual inflation indexing of Social Security benefits is compounded on top of the higher benefit.—
Bob Carlson,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
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“Categorization.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/categorization. Accessed 2 Jun. 2026.
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