as in to reclassify
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Recent Examples of recategorize
When mistakes are low-consequence, smart leaders recategorize errors as learning opportunities, evolutionary misguidance and situational myopia rather than doling out errors with penalties and professional purgatory.
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Nuala Walsh, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
The reintroduced bill would recategorize cranial prosthetics as durable medical equipment covered under the Social Security Act.
—Essence, 6 Oct. 2021
In California, lawmakers passed legislation requiring ride-hailing giants to recategorize drivers as employees and not contractors (which Uber and Lyft fought with a ballot initiative that was overturned last month).
—Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 16 Sep. 2021
That created an additional load on the service desk team, which had to manually recategorize these requests prior to either manual processing or automation via a workflow.
—Pat Calhoun, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
Under the order’s terms, White House officials could recategorize Fauci as a Schedule F employee and then dismiss him, effectively stripping him of his ability to appeal against his own removal.
—Matt Ford, The New Republic, 22 Oct. 2020
Nuala Walsh, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
The reintroduced bill would recategorize cranial prosthetics as durable medical equipment covered under the Social Security Act.
—Essence, 6 Oct. 2021
In California, lawmakers passed legislation requiring ride-hailing giants to recategorize drivers as employees and not contractors (which Uber and Lyft fought with a ballot initiative that was overturned last month).
—Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 16 Sep. 2021
That created an additional load on the service desk team, which had to manually recategorize these requests prior to either manual processing or automation via a workflow.
—Pat Calhoun, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
Under the order’s terms, White House officials could recategorize Fauci as a Schedule F employee and then dismiss him, effectively stripping him of his ability to appeal against his own removal.
—Matt Ford, The New Republic, 22 Oct. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for recategorize
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UCHealth spokesman Dan Weaver said the system asked the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing to reclassify its hospitals in 2023 because of concerns the federal government could determine the whole provider tax program is out of compliance, not as a way to bring in more money.—
Meg Wingerter,
Denver Post,
8 July 2025
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Boxer Mike Tyson joined other athletes in pressuring President Donald Trump to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule III drug.—
Jenny Goldsberry,
The Washington Examiner,
30 June 2025
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By late afternoon, some volunteer search crews began to regroup at the fire department, looking sweaty and wrung out.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
11 July 2025
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Hull was able to regroup and did ultimately hit her tee shot, but her recovery was short-lived.—
Chantz Martin,
FOXNews.com,
10 July 2025
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“Recategorize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recategorize. Accessed 3 Aug. 2025.
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