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Recent Examples of categorization
These resist neat categorization.
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Douglas B. Laney, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Familiar names, new Nashville hot spot Philip Krajeck’s restaurants defy easy categorization.
—Laura L. Davis, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
This, in turn, allows our other faculties to kick in — namely, problem-solving, pattern recognition, and categorization.
—Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 14 Aug. 2025
The High Court of Justice in London dismissed claims from the Wikimedia Foundation, which challenged the lawfulness of the categorization system used to determine which sites must comply with obligations.
—Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 11 Aug. 2025
But the categorization is consistent across the country, and the FBI best source for comparing local crime data nationally.
—Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025
In particular, identities that defy categorization clash with AI systems that are inherently designed to reduce complexity into rigid categories.
—Oliver L. Haimson, The Conversation, 7 Aug. 2025
Douglas B. Laney, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Familiar names, new Nashville hot spot Philip Krajeck’s restaurants defy easy categorization.
—Laura L. Davis, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
This, in turn, allows our other faculties to kick in — namely, problem-solving, pattern recognition, and categorization.
—Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 14 Aug. 2025
The High Court of Justice in London dismissed claims from the Wikimedia Foundation, which challenged the lawfulness of the categorization system used to determine which sites must comply with obligations.
—Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 11 Aug. 2025
But the categorization is consistent across the country, and the FBI best source for comparing local crime data nationally.
—Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025
In particular, identities that defy categorization clash with AI systems that are inherently designed to reduce complexity into rigid categories.
—Oliver L. Haimson, The Conversation, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for categorization
Noun
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First, assume that classification will be litigated if the arrangement is aggressive or if the borrower is thinly capitalized.—
Virginia La Torre Jeker,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Most of the eggs there belong to the species Placoolithus tumiaolingensis in the Dendroolithidae family, a classification that is derived from the eggs rather than from a dinosaur’s fossil skeleton.—
Mindy Weisberger,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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There's less cataloging and more sense-making.—
Catherine Iger,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Such codification is also a key driver of value for buyers looking to acquire attractive companies.—
Michael Ashley,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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With the stock market increasingly driven by passive investing and indexing, and dominated by a handful of mega-tech stocks, investors seeking diversification will need to start turning to the rapidly expanding private markets, Rowan told CNBC.—
Robert Frank,
CNBC,
2 Sep. 2025
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By applying semantic search and intelligent data indexing, AI models can organize and unify financial data across platforms.—
Maulikkumar Pandya,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Categorization.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/categorization. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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