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categorization

  • a word derived from categorize.
    categorize
    verb (used with object)
    to arrange in categories or classes; classify.

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In addition to improving productivity, the company is adding AI to its products to help customers in areas such as invoice coding and expense categorization.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

The Office of the Secretary of War is announcing a significant change to the Department’s categorization of religious affiliation.

From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026

By comparing activity patterns along visual recognition pathways in the models and in the babies' brains, the researchers could better understand how early categorization takes place.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 5, 2026

This categorization of roles and responsibilities will naturally reveal which positions are unnecessary because they duplicate others’ work, operate less efficiently, or are simply no longer needed.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 13, 2026

And then on the afternoon that Willow Chance came to see him, all of his categorization ground to a halt, like a fork thrown into the gears of outdated machinery.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan