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“Mariam has always said that she would comply with any government orders,” Moustafa Khier told the Guardian, adding that law enforcement agencies had categorized her as low risk in deciding to repatriate her.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 5, 2023

The report said that if American Airlines had categorized the slide as a more serious issue it would have prompted different corrective actions.

From Reuters • Oct. 22, 2021

This rogues’ gallery contained nearly a hundred and thirty thousand images—of acne, rashes, insect bites, allergic reactions, and cancers—that dermatologists had categorized into nearly two thousand diseases.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 27, 2017

In public reports the company had categorized billions of dollars as capital expenditures in 2001, meaning the costs could be stretched out over a number of years into the future.

From Time Magazine Archive

Evidence of the delicacy of the situation came in the President's prompt public repudiation of an OWI overseas broadcast which had categorized King Vittorio Emanuele and Premier Pietro Badoglio as Fascists .

From Time Magazine Archive