as in classified
to arrange or assign according to type
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Recent Examples of classed
The researchers were interested in four music types classed as joyful, soft, stirring (passionate) and sad.
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New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2025
At the start of the summer of 2024, media reports claimed Garnacho had been classed as one of the club’s three ‘untouchable’ players that not even the largest transfer fee would prise from Old Trafford.
—Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
The World Health Organisation has classed UV-emitting tanning devices as carcinogenic to humans since 2009.
—Lucy Abbersteen, Refinery29, 19 Aug. 2025
But what has followed this summer can certainly be classed as radical, not just by Liverpool’s standards but also by those of title-winning teams more widely.
—Oliver Kay, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2025
New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2025
At the start of the summer of 2024, media reports claimed Garnacho had been classed as one of the club’s three ‘untouchable’ players that not even the largest transfer fee would prise from Old Trafford.
—Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
The World Health Organisation has classed UV-emitting tanning devices as carcinogenic to humans since 2009.
—Lucy Abbersteen, Refinery29, 19 Aug. 2025
But what has followed this summer can certainly be classed as radical, not just by Liverpool’s standards but also by those of title-winning teams more widely.
—Oliver Kay, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for classed
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In the end, Sutton-Schulman won the Triangle Springs appeal, but Highmark classified L’s treatment at Menninger as two separate admissions.—
Duaa Eldeib,
ProPublica,
10 Sep. 2025
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Where cancellation fees were once treated largely as compensation outside the scope of VAT, the Court has increasingly classified them as consideration for services and therefore taxable.—
Aleksandra Bal,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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In 2024, Nepal ranked 107th out of 180 countries on Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index, with 84% of people perceiving government corruption to be a major problem.—
Nir Kshetri,
The Conversation,
14 Sep. 2025
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The two-time Olympic champion enters this year’s championships ranked fourth in the world.—
Katelyn Hutchison,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Other extinct branches of the tree of life included Hawaiian honeyeater birds of the family Mohoidae and the Dinornithormes order which grouped giant flightless birds such as New Zealand’s moas.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
9 Sep. 2025
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Half of the miscellaneous productions also blew their budgets though they aren't grouped under one franchise.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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An obsession with cleanliness was one of the things my proud mother relegated to middle-class anxiety.—
Rachel Kushner,
New Yorker,
14 Sep. 2025
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The basket of other updates will be relegated to an omni quarterly update.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Ever since its founding, Starbucks has distinguished itself by its capacity for innovation.—
Randy Bean,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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In the preceding years, views toward socialism — distinguished by collective ownership of the means of production — remained relatively unchanged.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Classed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/classed. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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