CLASSIFYING Synonyms: 92 Similar and Opposite Words

classifying

verb

present participle of classify

as in ranking

to arrange or assign according to type classify the baseball cards in your collection on the basis of rarity

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as in organizing

to put into a particular arrangement classify the information you got from the Internet by source

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Recent Examples of classifying Below, members of Forbes Technology Council share strategies for classifying large volumes of unstructured data while keeping the manual workload manageable. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026 Zema has proposed classifying major criminal factions as terrorist organizations. — Katie Angell Britannica Editors Oct. 2, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Oct. 2026 Researchers also used measurements from the devices to create a simulation for classifying videos of moving handwritten digits. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026 When a government committee chaired by Oppenheimer recommended strongly against the development of the H-bomb, the Atomic Energy Commission buried the report by classifying it as secret. — Scott W. Stern, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2026 The previous way of classifying heart attacks didn’t have enough nuance. — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 8 Sep. 2026 The following conversation touches on Rock's latest project and process, writing young characters and classifying his own work into a genre. — Zachary Fletcher, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026 Edwards and Magee spent decades classifying them, and the most important distinction is between a breakaway gap and everything else. — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2026 In addition to being arbitrary, reductionist, and biased, classifying individuals as obese or overweight based on a single number ignores many complexities about body fat. — Literary Hub, 17 Aug. 2026

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Piper Sandler's survey offered signs that Vans may finally be stabilizing — ranking as the seventh-most-popular footwear brand among male teens after years of sinking in the rankings and climbing to ninth among upper-income male teens.

— Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026
What’s Trending in the NFL, ranking the most controversial coaching decisions from the past week.

— Saad Yousuf, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of ranking

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Workers are organizing at manufacturing plants, in newsrooms, in technology, in hospitals, on college campuses, and construction sites.

— Liz Shuler, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
The area of opportunity for the Democratic Party continues to be a tendency to concentrate resources and organizing around major elections.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of organizing

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For Jekyll-Hyde, the costumes are crucial and add to the characterization, distinguishing the two men inhabiting the same body.

— Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2026
For voters scrolling through Instagram, TikTok, and other platforms, distinguishing between independent commentary and paid political advertising is becoming increasingly difficult.

— Abby Dodge, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of distinguishing

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In 2023, Canali debuted Care, an umbrella program grouping all the brand’s eco- and responsibility-minded initiatives.

— Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 21 Sep. 2026
Williams kept the respective songs from each album close together, grouping them in three- and four-track clusters.

— Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of grouping

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There was no mention of a funeral in Adrien’s letter, and for a moment, Adelaide indulged the thought of ordering a carriage for Moscow.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Oct. 2026
Ask me before adding anything to my calendar, ordering something or contacting anyone.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of ordering

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Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday rejected the idea that election monitors being deployed to polls during the midterm elections will be armed, categorizing the notion as fearmongering and false.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 4 Oct. 2026
Some of the recent gains came from re-categorizing conservation agreements that had already existed.

— Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of categorizing

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Of course, other keyboard types were cheaper to produce, relegating Hall-effect keyboards to an afterthought for decades.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 5 Oct. 2026
However, relegating City to the second-tier Championship League would be a punishment that could hurt the rest of the league.

— Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of relegating

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