as in classifying
to arrange or assign according to type
categorized the questions by topic
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Recent Examples of categorizing
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.
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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
Traditional budgeting apps often require a lot more manual input on your part, such as entering your income and categorizing your expenses.
—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
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
Traditional budgeting apps often require a lot more manual input on your part, such as entering your income and categorizing your expenses.
—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
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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Along those lines, Paxton, as the highest-ranking legal officer in Texas, could insist that Texas Tech, a public university, and its officers and students have been denied due process and other protections under the state constitution.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
13 June 2026
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The executive order directs various high-ranking government officials to develop and maintain a classified process for assessing whether new AI programs should be designated as frontier models, also called foundation models.—
Anjana Susarla,
The Conversation,
12 June 2026
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Behind the scenes, Spatial Hearing AI listens to the 3D acoustic environment and maps the soundscape, isolating each source and distinguishing between multiple speakers, so that devices can respond adaptively, guided by the context of their surroundings.—
Scott Kramer,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
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The original combat variant, which the company is already producing, will now carry the designation CA-1KA (Kinetic Attack), distinguishing it from the new electronic warfare model.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
14 June 2026
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Organization of the breweries will return to grouping by geographic regions.—
Don Tse,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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Hybrid fullback/tight end Jack Westover spent more time in-line than in the backfield, and started multiple team periods, including the very first in a 12 personnel grouping with Henry.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
9 June 2026
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“Categorizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/categorizing. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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