subcategorize

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Verb
  • There’s a lot more in the text of the Voting Rights Act that categorizes the relationship between race, political cohesion and voting power.
    AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 1 May 2026
  • In addition to account categories and interactions based on age, the interactive gaming platform will also categorize the types of games played by age.
    ABC News, ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The initiative, funded by Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and other businesses, allowed gig companies to classify their workers as contractors rather than employees.
    Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Royal Commissioner Virginia Bell made 14 recommendations on Thursday in her first interim report, five of which were not made public because they were classified as confidential for national security reasons.
    ABC News, ABC News, 30 Apr. 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
  • 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
  • Opting for black jeans (instead of blue) is an easy way to class up an outfit.
    Mia Huelsbeck, PEOPLE, 3 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Ramzan typed into his phone, trying not to feel alarmed by Adnan’s silence.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 May 2026
  • That should help ensure that when two Sabi users think of typing out a particular word, the exact same word appears on screen – despite the signals from their brains potentially differing somewhat.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 3 May 2026
Verb
  • The House advanced the bill codifying the peeper’s status, House Bill 5534, this week by a vote of 136-0.
    Theo Peck-Suzuki, Hartford Courant, 3 May 2026
  • His rage at this inequitable country has only grown more acute as America’s racial divides widen and codify.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
Verb
  • If a hospital is missing too many pieces of data, the hospital is not graded.
    Eva Flowe Updated May 7, Charlotte Observer, 7 May 2026
  • The event is graded by two judges whose scored are averaged.
    Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2026
Verb
  • Michael Quinn, a New York attorney who advises estates said that the commercial art world has become so professionalized that many postwar artists are unprepared to organize their studios, archives, and intellectual property before death.
    Angelica Villa, ARTnews.com, 1 May 2026
  • Every chat with Claude or GPT runs on the same underlying machinery that calculates spreadsheet totals and renders video games—silicon wafers etched with billions of microscopic switches, organized into specialized processors.
    Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 1 May 2026
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“Subcategorize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subcategorize. Accessed 8 May. 2026.

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