Example Sentences

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There’s also a song where I express that idea that many times people have categorized me as a bad character, “La Mala.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2025

Those nations have categorized the Lebanese group as a terrorist organization and withheld crucial financial support for the country.

From Seattle Times • May 14, 2022

Over the years, many people have categorized Ms. Lappé as a cookbook author or chef, like another of her contemporaries, the food activist Alice Waters.

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2021

Am I acknowledging and examining my own prejudices, my own rigid categorizations of others, thereby minimizing the adverse impact they might have on my interactions with those I have categorized?

From Slate • Mar. 3, 2021

Many other activities that psychologists have categorized as “motor skills” require more elaborate use of semantic memory: a tennis player must remember what a backhand and a ball toss are.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 23, 2015