categorizing

present participle of categorize

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of categorizing Zentist helps office staff stay on top of every claim by automatically categorizing insurance denials and adjustments. Nia Bowers, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2026 Those guidelines are much more attractive to taxpayers than those categorizing their income as gambling. Ananya Chetia, CNBC, 18 July 2026 Currently, basic Medicare, the public health insurer of many adults over 65, does not cover grab bars, categorizing them like nonslip flooring or bathtub seats as convenience items rather than medical necessities. Panashe Matemba-Mutasa, Mercury News, 13 July 2026 To streamline the private-public partnership and ensure the most rapid response to the biggest risks, Anthropic said the AI industry’s goal should be categorizing risks to ensure proper interventions both internally and from the government. Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 1 July 2026 Nearly four-fifths of respondents said that gas prices present some sort of strain, with 34% categorizing it as a major strain and 44% calling it a minor strain. Justine McDaniel, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2026 The agency stopped categorizing the causes of death in March of last year. Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026 Witter is Desert Vintage’s longest-serving employee, save for its current owners, Roberto Cowan and Salima Boufelfel, and is in charge of categorizing and dating the rare and glorious treasures that come through the shop’s doors. Max Berlinger, Vogue, 11 June 2026 The reforms also open up the possibility of categorizing gangs and drug cartels as terrorist groups. CBS News, 3 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for categorizing
Verb
  • Some need only light intelligence—converting structured output into natural language, organizing OCR results or classifying simple requests.
    Nitin Gupta, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The previous way of classifying heart attacks didn’t have enough nuance.
    Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 8 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The 20-year-old Celebrini is coming off one of the best seasons ever for a player so young, ranking fourth in the league in scoring, starring in the Olympics and then signing a five-year, $94 million extension this summer.
    ABC News, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Murphy serves as the ranking member on the Senate Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee, which oversees funding for ICE.
    Laura Tillman, Hartford Courant, 18 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • According to Mason Huddleston, an urban agriculturalist at Oklahoma State University Extension, one of the plant’s most distinguishing features is its smooth, hollow stem, marked with purple or reddish-purple spots.
    SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Another study found that almost half the country has difficulty distinguishing American Jews from the Israeli government.
    Matt Calkins OutKick, FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • But Shanes questioned whether grouping Jews under a single ethnic category would produce sufficiently specific data for those purposes, or instead obscure differences among Jewish populations with distinct ancestries.
    Naomi Taxay, Sacbee.com, 28 Aug. 2026
  • This time around, however, the tech giant is establishing parameters on mass arbitration by grouping them in batches of 25, 100, and 500, depending on the total number of claimants with similar issues.
    Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 17 Aug. 2026

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“Categorizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/categorizing. Accessed 20 Sep. 2026.

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