Example Sentences

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“How does it feel when allies are classifying Germany’s attitude as unreliable?”

From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2022

But critics and Chinese citizens are skeptical: there are concerns that Chinese officials are undercounting the number of illnesses, and are classifying deaths that might have been from the virus as being from pneumonia.

From The Verge • Jan. 23, 2020

To secure a significant competitive advantage, some building firms are classifying workers as independent contractors rather than as employees - even though many of these workers meet the definition of employees under federal law.

From Washington Times • Sep. 12, 2017

To secure a significant competitive advantage, some building firms are classifying workers as independent contractors rather than as employees — even though many of these workers meet the definition of employees under federal law.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 12, 2017

And in those same hospitals men are working night and day; the bacteriologists studying "smears" under microscopes, while the surgeons are classifying, operating, "dressing," marking temperature-charts, and annotating case-sheets.

From Leaves from a Field Note-Book by Morgan, John Hartman