reclassify

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Recent Examples of reclassify The Justice Department under President Joe Biden, a Democrat, had proposed to reclassify marijuana, eliciting nearly 43,000 formal public comments. ABC News, 23 Apr. 2026 The efforts to reclassify marijuana The Justice Department under President Biden had proposed to reclassify marijuana, eliciting nearly 43,000 formal public comments. Alanna Durkin Richer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026 The Justice Department and Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) are also speeding up the process to reclassify recreational marijuana during a hearing in June. Tara Lynch, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026 But since that directive, progress to reclassify cannabis has largely stalled, with the Drug Enforcement Administration review still ongoing and no final decision on moving marijuana from Schedule I to the lesser Schedule III. Brandon Gomez, CNBC, 20 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for reclassify
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Verb
  • Detroit desperately needs to regroup as the series heads back to Little Caesars Arena on Wednesday even at two games apiece.
    Darnell Mayberry, New York Times, 12 May 2026
  • Buxton knows the plan — a fighting retreat that saves ownership money but still gives the team the chance to regroup and compete for a division title with strong starting pitching and an aggressive, small-ball approach from a young, athletic lineup.
    John Shipley, Twin Cities, 4 May 2026
Verb
  • And Blanche invoked that streamlined process to recategorize medical marijuana.
    Bill Chappell, NPR, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Cumming said the city refused to comply with a subpoena by trying to recategorize it as a request under the Maryland Public Information Act (MPIA), per advice from an attorney with the Maryland Office of the Attorney General (OAG).
    Adam Thompson, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Responding officers with the Memphis Police Department later identified Dunmars as the driver of the Jeep Cherokee involved in the incident.
    Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 16 May 2026
  • This marks Congo’s 17th recorded Ebola outbreak since the virus was first identified in the country in 1976.
    Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 16 May 2026
Verb
  • Presidents have often recognized and honored the Jewish community within the broader story of America.
    Ari Berman, New York Daily News, 15 May 2026
  • Authority grows when your purpose is easy to recognize.
    Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 14 May 2026
Verb
  • The city promised to refund businesses that obtained special licenses and health permits to participate in the event, and referred questions about ticket refunds and vendor participation fees to Long Beach Pride.
    Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2026
  • The entire site is commonly referred as New Trinity Cemetery.
    Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 May 2026
Verb
  • In the old system, the administrator found an incident report from April 30, 2002, filed by an officer named Darrell Mayhew, who had found Djena by herself in the park near the Toures’ residence.
    Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • Osment filed for divorce on March 7, 2025, citing irreconcilable differences.
    Jane LaCroix, PEOPLE, 17 May 2026
Verb
  • Another pair of wins from KPop Demon Hunters, which are attached to the evil boy band Saja Boys, cracked the top 10 as well, and several members – the group is made up of Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo and Samuil Lee – are usually classified as K-pop artists.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • Final thoughts For context, my backyard sky falls somewhere between 7 and 8 on the Bortle scale, a nine-level system used by astronomers to classify the brightness of the night sky and the impact of light pollution.
    Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 15 May 2026
Verb
  • Finely ground powders like cinnamon, garlic powder, onion powder, or paprika are most likely to clump up, since their small particles readily absorb moisture.
    Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 9 May 2026
  • Compared with standard catalysts that degrade or clump together through sintering at high temperatures, these multimetallic particles remained effective even after 12 hours at 900°C.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 May 2026

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“Reclassify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reclassify. Accessed 18 May. 2026.

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