subcategorizes

Definition of subcategorizesnext
present tense third-person singular of subcategorize
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Verb
  • Learn how to try the trend and which anchor types the bar tool supports.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Today, a Luddite is your grandparent who keeps looking at the screen rather than the camera when on Zoom, the Boomer who types in all-capital letters, the grouchy man who refuses to get a smart phone, the professor spewing invective against Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Like the Wauwatosa location, the Mequon shop will be home to a classroom that can accommodate around 32 guests for entertainment, classes rentals and social gatherings, the business' owner, Orey Laev, told the Journal Sentinel in January.
    Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The district at the time intended to use it mostly for course predictions, which involves guessing which classes a student will enroll in based on their previous coursework.
    EdSource, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2025
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
  • The World Health Organization categorizes people with a BMI over 25 as overweight and a BMI over 30 as obese.
    Cory Martin, Verywell Health, 29 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The Controlled Substances Act classifies drugs from Schedule I to Schedule V based on their potential for abuse, addictiveness and medical use.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 9 May 2026
  • Armstrong reported the directive explicitly classifies the approval of municipal ordinances as nonpartisan political activity — a category the directive does not prohibit military members from engaging in.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2026
Verb
  • The club’s medical staff grades all prospective targets on their injury risks, and Calvert-Lewin was not marked at the highest end of that spectrum.
    Beren Cross, New York Times, 17 May 2026
  • The report grades medical care facilities on a scale from A to F, with A being the highest grade and F the lowest.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 12 May 2026
Verb
  • Flint, Michigan, once closely linked with the auto industry, ranks as the nation's most affordable real estate market, according to a new analysis from WalletHub.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 19 May 2026
  • Colombia ranks second, offering a mix of lively cities and a relatively low cost of living.
    Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 19 May 2026
Verb
  • Is there a law that sorts that out for us?
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The equipment uses an AI scanner to read the composition of such textiles and sorts them by fibers, after which they can be recycled.
    Tian MacLeod Ji, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Sponsors of the legislation say that this bill essentially codifies existing rulings by the Public Employment Relations Board, which has previously issued decisions that employers infringed on union and employee rights by attempting to learn the content of their discussions.
    William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The legislation codifies an executive order Reynolds issued last year.
    Stephen Gruber-Miller, Des Moines Register, 20 Feb. 2026
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“Subcategorizes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subcategorizes. Accessed 21 May. 2026.

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