as in classifying
to arrange or assign according to type
categorized the questions by topic
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Recent Examples of categorizing
Traditional budgeting apps often require a lot more manual input on your part, such as entering your income and categorizing your expenses.
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Rebecca Safier, USA Today, 1 June 2026
Yet that’s exactly what the DOJ has done by categorizing applicants and their test scores solely by race.
—Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026
By not categorizing the ISS as a monetizable enterprise, an immense amount of enterprise value remains latent and inaccessible to the broader market.
—Tejpaul Bhatia, Fortune, 20 May 2026
Despite the proximity, the space rock poses no danger, according to Richard Binzel, a professor of planetary sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the inventor of the Torino Scale, a tool for categorizing potential collisions of space objects with Earth.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 18 May 2026
ChatGPT will then begin syncing and categorizing data, which may take a few minutes.
—Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 16 May 2026
The analysis moves away from categorizing systems and toward understanding how decisions are actually made.
—Alonzo Martinez, Forbes.com, 1 May 2026
McCarrell said about half of the archive’s materials were well-organized ahead of the impending closure announcement, but categorizing what remains has been largely left up to him.
—Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
In these years, children are so good at categorizing, memorizing, and imagining that passionate time travel comes easily.
—Elena Megalos, Longreads, 31 Mar. 2026
Rebecca Safier, USA Today, 1 June 2026
Yet that’s exactly what the DOJ has done by categorizing applicants and their test scores solely by race.
—Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026
By not categorizing the ISS as a monetizable enterprise, an immense amount of enterprise value remains latent and inaccessible to the broader market.
—Tejpaul Bhatia, Fortune, 20 May 2026
Despite the proximity, the space rock poses no danger, according to Richard Binzel, a professor of planetary sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the inventor of the Torino Scale, a tool for categorizing potential collisions of space objects with Earth.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 18 May 2026
ChatGPT will then begin syncing and categorizing data, which may take a few minutes.
—Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 16 May 2026
The analysis moves away from categorizing systems and toward understanding how decisions are actually made.
—Alonzo Martinez, Forbes.com, 1 May 2026
McCarrell said about half of the archive’s materials were well-organized ahead of the impending closure announcement, but categorizing what remains has been largely left up to him.
—Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
In these years, children are so good at categorizing, memorizing, and imagining that passionate time travel comes easily.
—Elena Megalos, Longreads, 31 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for categorizing
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The team began sorting through possible origins for this high-energy neutrino particle by acting like cosmic forensic detectives, classifying the detection of the particle as a crime scene and hunting for potential clues that point toward a culprit.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
28 May 2026
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Researchers debuted an inventory for classifying apocalyptic belief, comprising anthropogenic causality, theogenic causality, imminence, personal control, and the question of whether the end is a good or bad thing.—
Wyatt Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
26 May 2026
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With their power ranking for the playoffs and their youth, the Diablos carried the profile of an underdog.—
Dan Albano,
Oc Register,
31 May 2026
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Justice Department lawyers asked Eaton to allow one or two of Scott’s deputies to appear in his place, arguing that as a high-ranking presidential appointee, the CBP chief could not be compelled to testify in court.—
Mae Anderson,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2026
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This isn’t to say any of these teams would have challenged eventual champion LSU; the point is that distinguishing between teams 10 and 20 for inclusion in a 16-team CFP is virtually impossible.—
Scott Dochterman,
New York Times,
1 June 2026
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The first distinguishing feature is the nature of the problem being attacked.—
Ethan Stone,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
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This plan included a prohibition on shark finning -- the process of removing shark fins at sea and discarding the rest of the shark -- and grouping sharks into different complexes to simplify the management of dozens of species.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
1 June 2026
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Not having a clear system or grouping like items together.—
Ashlyn Needham,
The Spruce,
28 May 2026
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“Categorizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/categorizing. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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