categorize
verb (used with object)
to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
categorizes
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present tense formof categorize (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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FlyDubai categorizes airports in terms of difficulty, pilots say, with Tel Aviv’s airport ranking as one of the easier destinations in the airline’s network and not requiring major experience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
The study, published in Nature's Communications Earth & Environment, categorizes warming periods that occur ahead of and following MHWs.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
Wall Street categorizes metals as precious, base/industrial, and maybe “other” for the weird ones.
From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025
The problem now, Serrano explained, is that to secure permits, vendors must file an I-10 form, which categorizes filers by their citizenship status.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2025
Sister Miriam Joseph* categorizes the relation of the trivial arts as follows: logic is concerned with the thing-as-it-is-known; grammar is concerned with the thing-as-it-is-symbolized; rhetoric is concerned with the thing-as-it-is-communicated.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
