subcategorize

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Verb
  • It should have been categorized as a suspicious death and treated as such.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2026
  • Governments still may fly flags that are not categorized as religious, political or ideological.
    Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 7 May 2026
Verb
  • Such systems as the Shahed-131 and Shahed-136 series, classified as one-way attack (OWA) UAVs, have been exported extensively to proxy groups and state allies.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 May 2026
  • Rising costs already limit access to higher education for many, and recent federal policies incorrectly classifying nursing as a nonprofessional degree will only further restrict access to financing for nursing school applicants.
    Nicholas A. Giordano, STAT, 8 May 2026
Verb
  • The only way that a lot of these young women could function afterwards was to compartmentalize and suppress the experience.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Lake Central junior Connor Friesema tends to compartmentalize his two sports.
    Michael Osipoff, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Mind you, Villa boss Unai Emery then kicked off about a tackle on Ollie Watkins which wasn’t classed as a red card offence — proving that there’s always something else to pin on VAR.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 1 May 2026
  • The album’s various fine to middling duets and collabs make their own case for canonicity—in a decade the latest comer may request Kehlani to class up their singles.
    Alfred Soto, Pitchfork, 28 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The team was in need of someone to type scouting reports.
    Matt Schooley, CBS News, 11 May 2026
  • These systems evaluate device telemetry, typing rhythm, and spending velocity before a transaction ever settles.
    Ethan Stone, USA Today, 11 May 2026
Verb
  • This includes re-enshrining, codifying and strengthening our inalienable rights in the United States and abolishing ICE to ensure immigration and the struggle of migrants is treated as a civilian one, requiring support instead of brutality and criminalization.
    Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026
  • The document, a person familiar with discussions about the new rules said, is aimed at further codifying rules that limit temporary construction on the Promenade to official partners of the World Economic Forum — primarily large global companies that pay up to seven figures for the relationship.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 7 May 2026
Verb
  • Patterson also said a grading system that publicly ranks schools on an A-F scale is on his list of priorities for the week.
    Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 13 May 2026
  • If a hospital is missing too many pieces of data, the hospital is not graded.
    Eva Flowe May 13, Charlotte Observer, 13 May 2026
Verb
  • Wilson met his particular mawmaws through a support group organized by West Virginia State University.
    Casey Cep, New Yorker, 9 May 2026
  • The club was organized, assertive and dangerous in possession.
    Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2026
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“Subcategorize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subcategorize. Accessed 15 May. 2026.

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