Example Sentences

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Just 16% of respondents expressed a state of confidence about their money, a separate bucket that the survey categorizes as financially “fulfilled.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

Wall Street categorizes metals as precious, base/industrial, and maybe “other” for the weird ones.

From Barron's • Dec. 26, 2025

The International Union for Conservation of Nature red list categorizes lions as vulnerable to extinction.

From Science Daily • Nov. 22, 2025

Among left-leaning Americans, there's no dominant religious categorization, at least in the manner that the media categorizes them.

From Salon • Oct. 18, 2024

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