Example Sentences

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Ship insurers have classified the strait as a high-risk area and hiked premiums.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

For years, scientists have classified these noises into roughly two dozen distinct phrases, or codas, making the communications seem about as complicated as two novice trumpeters trading notes.

From Science Magazine • May 7, 2024

It’s a simple, but potent antidote for what many researchers have classified as a global loneliness epidemic, and the ways in which isolation can harm both individual and public health.

From Salon • Jan. 22, 2024

In January and February, both Biden and Mike Pence were discovered to have classified documents in their possession from their respective times as vice president.

From Slate • Sep. 18, 2023

A physiognomist would have classified him as a man of studious habit with the leisure to indulge it, and unconsciously he dressed the part.

From The Taming of Red Butte Western by Lynde, Francis