subcategorize

verb

as in to categorize

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  1. categorize
  2. classify
  3. compartmentalize
  4. class
  5. type
  6. codify
  7. grade
  8. organize
Verb
  • Shigella infections categorized as extensively drug-resistant, or XDR, are rising.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The new system will organize types of data that proved difficult to categorize in the past — such as the ways firms make difficult decisions — to make the rankings more authoritative.
    — Benjamin Mullin, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of categorize
Verb
  • Improvements to LinkedIn’s detection systems have resulted in a 40% decline in views of content classified as AI slop, the platform said last month.
    — Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Just 9% of Porter’s 3-point attempts were classified as wide open, the lowest share among 307 players who took at least 100 3s.
    — C.J. Holmes, New York Daily News, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of classify
Verb
  • The leaders who navigate these situations most effectively are often the ones who can compartmentalize complexity.
    — Seema Phull, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Using the modifiable plastic compartmentalizing piece, this can organizer can also hold a variety of different can types.
    — BestReviews, Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of compartmentalize
Verb
  • The High Court ruled in February that classing Palestine Action as a terror group alongside the likes of al-Qaida and Hamas was disproportionate and unlawful.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026
  • The month before that, thieves snatched three porcelain works worth millions of dollars and classed as national treasures in a heist at the Adrien Dubouche National Museum in Limoges in central France.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of class
Verb
  • On a remote team especially, a disagreement typed out and thought through lands very differently than one blurted mid-call.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • In the decades since touchscreen keyboards became universal, plenty still mourn the sublime experience of typing on clacky BlackBerrys.
    — Martin Cizmar, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of type
Verb
  • Reassured, European countries (aside from France and the United Kingdom) agreed to codify their nonnuclear status in the 1968 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
    — Ivo H. Daalder, Foreign Affairs, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Russ keeps the storytelling very straightforward and very much in keeping with the style that ESPN and HBO sports documentaries have codified over the years.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of codify
Verb
  • This is an example of why relying on AI models to grade the training runs of other AI models can be problematic.
    — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Bet365 New users looking to bet on the ALCS or NLCS can wager $10 on the game and receive $200 in bonuses from bet365 when the bet is graded.
    — OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of grade
Verb
  • The team’s last-second win over the Philadelphia Eagles last week in Tottenham Hotspur Stadium was organized and operated by the NFL, part of the league’s more standard rotation of all teams playing overseas.
    — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Workers are organizing at manufacturing plants, in newsrooms, in technology, in hospitals, on college campuses, and construction sites.
    — Liz Shuler, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of organize
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