subcategorize

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Verb
  • This means recording transactions, categorizing expenses and calculating totals yourself, without linking your bank accounts to an app.
    Nick Perry, USA Today, 11 May 2026
  • The Western musical tradition is mostly sidelined in favor of kuduro, gqom, batida, and sounds too free of familiar musical idioms to be easily categorized.
    Will Lynch, Pitchfork, 11 May 2026
Verb
  • Another pair of wins from KPop Demon Hunters, which are attached to the evil boy band Saja Boys, cracked the top 10 as well, and several members – the group is made up of Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo and Samuil Lee – are usually classified as K-pop artists.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • Final thoughts For context, my backyard sky falls somewhere between 7 and 8 on the Bortle scale, a nine-level system used by astronomers to classify the brightness of the night sky and the impact of light pollution.
    Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 15 May 2026
Verb
  • Cinema is no longer compartmentalized.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 12 May 2026
  • So that unit is completely compartmentalized from other patients.
    Philip Wang, Time, 11 May 2026
Verb
  • Stammering can be classed as a disability in UK law under the 2010 Equality Act, which informs the FA’s rules on discrimination.
    Michael Walker, New York Times, 13 May 2026
  • The album’s various fine to middling duets and collabs make their own case for canonicity—in a decade the latest comer may request Kehlani to class up their singles.
    Alfred Soto, Pitchfork, 28 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Knowing when to pick up the phone instead of typing another message is worth figuring out.
    Nathan Green, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2026
  • On April 20th, Alex Sinclair, a novelist and part-time lecturer in Jewish education at Hebrew University, was typing away on his laptop at his favorite café in the city of Modi’in.
    Bernard Avishai, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
Verb
  • Legislators tried to codify the same suppression Anthropic built into the model into statute.
    Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
  • But Congress hasn’t codified these rules into law.
    Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
Verb
  • Patterson also said a grading system that publicly ranks schools on an A-F scale is on his list of priorities for the week.
    Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 13 May 2026
  • If a hospital is missing too many pieces of data, the hospital is not graded.
    Eva Flowe May 13, Charlotte Observer, 13 May 2026
Verb
  • Her team quickly put together a plan to help coördinate repairs, secure new electrical generators, implement a triage system, and organize trainings for staff.
    Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 15 May 2026
  • Certain lower-risk administrative technologies are expressly excluded, including spreadsheets requiring human analysis, workflow management and routing tools, and systems that simply organize or summarize information without generating predictions or inferences.
    Alonzo Martinez, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
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“Subcategorize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subcategorize. Accessed 21 May. 2026.

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