Example Sentences

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Apps are great for tracking spending and automatically categorizing — making it easy to see that you spent this much more on food than clothes, or what you’re putting toward subscriptions.

From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026

I often wonder: Does their categorizing need extend to the subatomic realm?

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

That's the lower limit of categorizing objects on the Torino Scale.

From Salon • Mar. 3, 2025

Researching the impacts of categorizing Brazilians as Hispanic was among the recommendations a Census Bureau advisory committee made last month.

From Seattle Times • May 27, 2024

Children can explore the timbre, production, and material of the instruments to come up with their own ways of categorizing them.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin