Example Sentences

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Because Greenland possesses 39 of the 50 minerals the United States has classified as critical to national security.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 7, 2026

India's pollution control authority has classified the air in Delhi as "severe plus", after the city passed 450 according to its measurements on Monday morning.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2024

The group — set up in 2004 by U.N. agencies and international relief groups — has classified a famine only twice before: in Somalia in 2011 and in South Sudan in 2017.

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2024

The World Health Organization has classified it as a possible carcinogen, and Roundup’s maker, Bayer, has spent billions settling U.S. lawsuits by people who claimed it caused their cancers.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 27, 2023

She explained quietly, “Tata Fowells is especially interested in the birds. He has classified many kinds in this region that were never known before by the Europeans.”

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver