CLASSIFIES Synonyms: 89 Similar and Opposite Words

classifies

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present tense third-person singular of classify

as in ranks

to arrange or assign according to type classify the baseball cards in your collection on the basis of rarity

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as in organizes

to put into a particular arrangement classify the information you got from the Internet by source

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Recent Examples of classifies The agency oversees supplements according to the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994, which classifies the products as food rather than as drugs and largely allows the marketing to be left up to the companies. —

Laya Neelakandan, CNBC, 6 May 2026 The World Wildlife Fund classifies white rhinos as near threatened due to poaching. —

Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 29 Apr. 2026 The American Cancer Society has also expanded its guidelines and no longer automatically classifies someone who quit smoking more than 15 years ago as low-risk. —

Caleb Hellerman, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2026 Globally, the International Union for Conservation of Nature also classifies polar bears as vulnerable. —

Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 20 Apr. 2026 The agency classifies it as a superfund site, meaning the area may be contaminated with hazardous materials. —

Mark Prussin, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2026 Though the city's online neighborhood map technically classifies the site as part of downtown, Long's identifies as a Haughville institution that has served doughnuts to west siders for four generations, serving up to 1,000 customers each day out of its pale-yellow sided building. —

Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 1 Apr. 2026 SmartAsset used the Pew Research definition of middle class for its report, which classifies middle class as an income between two-thirds and double a region’s median income. —

Caden Perry, jsonline.com, 26 Mar. 2026 The World Health Organization now classifies burnout as an occupational phenomenon, and research shows that the average person’s attention span has dropped nearly 50% in the last two decades. —

Elan Gepner-Dales, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2026

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The Phillies fired Thomson as the team ranks last or in the bottom part of the league in several statistical categories, like run differential, ERA, batting average and OPS, largely with the same roster as the previous four seasons.

— Tom Dougherty, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2026
While at Penn State, Trautwein, a former All-SEC performer for the Gators, recruited Miller out of Anna, Texas, as well as Hiller, who hails from Coatesville, Pennsylvania, and ranks as the nation’s top interior line prospect.

— Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2026