How to Use categorize in a Sentence

categorize

verb
Definition of categorizenext
Synonyms for categorizenext
  • Birds are categorized by type in this field guide.
  • This software lets you categorize your photographs in many different ways.
  • Their opinions can be categorized as conservative.
  • At the same time, being hard to categorize has not always been a bad thing.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Capture and categorize your ideas using mind maps or Trello boards.
    — Gabriella Goddard, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Scientists have long sought to categorize and quantify smell.
    — New York Times, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Efforts to track the federal dollars will also suffer from a lack of agreement on how to categorize the spending.
    — Chad Aldeman, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Such tools categorize water bodies based on such parameters.
    — Naveen Joshi, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
  • In terms of recruitment, AI will auto-screen resumes and categorize them based on each position.
    — Heidi Lynne Kurter, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Topics will categorize users in much broader interest categories than Floc did.
    — Sam Schechner, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Some states don’t categorize false police reports as disorderly conduct.
    — Michael Tarm, ajc, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The appeals court did not rule on how any of the videos should be categorized.
    — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Prager said there are three ways to categorize the birds there.
    — Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 1 Apr. 2022
  • For thousands of years, humans have felt the need to categorize things in the world in order to make sense of them.
    — Allison Hope, CNN, 1 Nov. 2022
  • On the Beaufort scale, long used to categorize wind strength, a 32 mph wind reaches near-gale force.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Charles Ray is an artist easy to embrace but slippery to hold close and categorize.
    — Richard B. Woodward, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2022
  • This is categorized in one of the following three ways.
    — Sanja Jelic, Verywell Health, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Out of the four elements (earth, fire, water and air), it is categorized as an earth sign.
    — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The start-up is planning to launch satellites to study and categorize space junk, creating a kind of Google Maps of space.
    — Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Like always trying to categorize leaves and rocks and s—. Bugs though, that’s a new comfort.
    — Staff Author, Peoplemag, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Wake Up!—left critics and fans unsure how to categorize the group.
    — Zach Schonfeld, SPIN, 15 Mar. 2022
  • This meant that Calderón could run a simple script to help categorize the charges into groupings.
    — Karim Doumar, ProPublica, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The severity of the drugs is categorized into five levels that the DEA calls schedules.
    — Theara Coleman, The Week, 7 Sep. 2023
  • What is abundant, what is scarce, and what is harder to categorize?
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2022
  • In a good rotation, all of them categorize as No. 3 starters.
    — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Oct. 2022
  • In both cases, whether the taco was categorized as a sandwich or not-a-sandwich was almost beside the point.
    — Tejal Rao, New York Times, 18 May 2024
  • But Parton doesn’t sweat the small things — and with a rich career like hers, those offers can be categorized as minor.
    — Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Nov. 2023
  • All killer whales are currently categorized as a single species, but a new study may change that.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
  • To categorize these words as solely Gen Z or Gen Alpha slang misrepresents their history, and over-simplifies the way in which language evolves and grows.
    — Casey Clark, Parents, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Unlike other closed-end funds, its shares are not traded on a public exchange and it’s categorized as a business development company (BDCs).
    — Michelle Fox, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2024

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