Examples of categorize in a Sentence
This software lets you categorize your photographs in many different ways.
Their opinions can be categorized as conservative.
Birds are categorized by type in this field guide.
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The lawsuit claims that Missouri lawmakers used no rational basis to categorize which counties qualified for a 5% cap, a freeze or neither.
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Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2026
In a public docket, the NTSB categorized the event as a turbulence encounter and said the investigation is ongoing, according to documents reviewed by the San Francisco Chronicle.
—Christopher Edwards, PEOPLE, 3 Apr. 2026
There is a long history of women's pain being dismissed by doctors, incorrectly categorized as period pain or rooted in psychological distress.
—Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
Bogen says the pattern is familiar from older Internet platforms, where small behavioral cues became signals that shaped what users saw and how they were categorized.
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Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2026
In a public docket, the NTSB categorized the event as a turbulence encounter and said the investigation is ongoing, according to documents reviewed by the San Francisco Chronicle.
—Christopher Edwards, PEOPLE, 3 Apr. 2026
There is a long history of women's pain being dismissed by doctors, incorrectly categorized as period pain or rooted in psychological distress.
—Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
Bogen says the pattern is familiar from older Internet platforms, where small behavioral cues became signals that shaped what users saw and how they were categorized.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 2 Apr. 2026
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“Categorize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/categorize. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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categorize
verb
cat·e·go·rize
ˈkat-i-gə-ˌrīz 
categorized; categorizing
: to put into a category : classify
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