reclassify

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Recent Examples of reclassify The recent attempt to pursue a dog park at the Osuna and reclassify the property to use class H for semi-public uses was unsuccessful. Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2025 In 2014, California voters approved Proposition 47, a ballot initiative that reclassified several nonviolent felonies, including shoplifting, theft and drug possession, as misdemeanors if the value involved was $950 or less. Sarah Rumpf-Whitten , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2025 Over the past month, this version of the Knicks has reclassified itself. Fred Katz, New York Times, 21 May 2025 After reclassifying ahead a year, Flagg entered college at 17 and didn’t turn 18 until December. Adam Zagoria, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for reclassify
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reclassify
Verb
  • Massachusetts lawmakers should regroup, and tune out the cable tax.
    Boston Herald editorial staff, Boston Herald, 24 June 2025
  • Groups of demonstrators retreated to nearby streets, only to cut back and regroup near the Stonewall Inn and Christopher Park.
    Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2025
Verb
  • 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.
    Nuala Walsh, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
  • The reintroduced bill would recategorize cranial prosthetics as durable medical equipment covered under the Social Security Act.
    Essence, Essence, 6 Oct. 2021
Verb
  • Its global study on smartphone addiction identified the 10 most effective strategies to reduce smartphone use.
    Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 June 2025
  • About two years after the assault, Agnes must identify her gender on a government form.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 29 June 2025
Verb
  • This led to conflicts with horse-riders, but, recognizing that there were more cyclists than horse-riders, the municipality gave bicyclists legal access to horse tracks in the early 1880s.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 1 July 2025
  • Every year, The Hollywood Reporter recognizes the town’s best and most influential business managers working behind the scenes to manage the financial lives of entertainment’s most high-profile figures.
    Trey Williams, HollywoodReporter, 1 July 2025
Verb
  • Environmental Benefits of Increasing Oysters in U.S. Waters Found in salty or coastal waters, oysters clump together to live in shells, along piers and on top of rocks.
    Noël Fletcher, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
  • Blood clots are clumped together by thread-like proteins called fibrin.
    Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 16 June 2025
Verb
  • The public defender’s office that represented Yang in his criminal case referred questions to federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of California.
    Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025
  • Buckley officials confirmed Tuesday that Schur was a signals intelligence analyst at the base and was discharged in July, but declined to comment further and referred questions to Aurora police.
    Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 18 June 2025
Verb
  • Newsweek has reached out to the office of interim U.S. Attorney Alina Habba, who filed the charges, via email on Wednesday afternoon.
    Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025
  • Those filings are among the key elements in the Bar’s emergency petition filed last week.
    Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 25 June 2025
Verb
  • This component classifies requests and forwards to the WAF just the ones needing inspection, such as dynamic content requests, and offloads the WAF by caching responses.
    Alexander Krizhanovsky, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • The shooting now classified as a-homicide was the third killing reported during a violent weekend in Kansas City, as temperatures soared above 90 degrees across the region.
    Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 22 June 2025

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“Reclassify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reclassify. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.

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