subcategorize

verb

as in to categorize

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for subcategorize
  1. categorize
  2. classify
  3. compartmentalize
  4. class
  5. type
  6. codify
  7. grade
  8. organize
Verb
  • With this much space, the entire region can’t be categorized in any one specific way—except with the word dramatic.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Images get treated and categorized one way; PDFs another; text notes another.
    — David Pierce, The Verge, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of categorize
Verb
  • In an April 2026 live-fire exercise at Fort Hood, Texas, the Army demonstrated an autonomous sensor on one platform that detected and classified a hostile drone, then passed data and an engagement command to a weapon system on another platform.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Trump also classified Brazil’s biggest drug-trafficking groups as foreign terrorist organizations shortly after receiving Bolsonaro at the White House — a move Lula’s administration opposed as a pretext for intervention.
    — Eléonore Hughes, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of classify
Verb
  • The Valkyries president says self-care is a non-negotiable Smith doesn’t compartmentalize the professional and personal parts of her life.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
  • The leaders who navigate these situations most effectively are often the ones who can compartmentalize complexity.
    — Seema Phull, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of compartmentalize
Verb
  • The High Court ruled in February that classing Palestine Action as a terror group alongside the likes of al-Qaida and Hamas was disproportionate and unlawful.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026
  • The month before that, thieves snatched three porcelain works worth millions of dollars and classed as national treasures in a heist at the Adrien Dubouche National Museum in Limoges in central France.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of class
Verb
  • Machines, too, can type emails, solve equations and spit out data as directed.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 24 Oct. 2026
  • On a remote team especially, a disagreement typed out and thought through lands very differently than one blurted mid-call.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of type
Verb
  • In December 2025, Congress passed a law that codified and expanded the program to target more technologies and more foreign countries, including Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Russia.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Reassured, European countries (aside from France and the United Kingdom) agreed to codify their nonnuclear status in the 1968 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
    — Ivo H. Daalder, Foreign Affairs, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of codify
Verb
  • The students said in the suit that their instructor did not post grades in a timely manner or return graded exams.
    — Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Oct. 2026
  • To launch these efforts, the United States should develop a comprehensive grading system for defense industrial security—a framework that assesses allies’ ability to safeguard critical technologies and identifies areas for improvement.
    — Sam Mullins, Foreign Affairs, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of grade
Verb
  • Eire serves on the advisory board for the Disclosure Foundation, a nonprofit that organized the event and is dedicated to transparency around unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) and aliens.
    — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2026
  • On February 9, 1934, the French Communist Party organized a march to the Place de la République as a counter-protest to fascist riots, an action that helped lay the groundwork for the alliance of left-wing parties known as the Popular Front.
    — Maurice Samuels, New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of organize
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