categorize
verb (used with object)
to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
recategorize
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a word derived from
categorize.
Example Sentences
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Currently, the government classified potatoes as a vegetable, but there has been speculation the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans could recategorize them as a grain.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2024
Falling below that threshold would recategorize Hilary from a hurricane to a tropical storm, as long as wind speeds remain above 39 miles per hour.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 19, 2023
With this distinction, Ely was able to recategorize as legitimate a host of civil rights cases that might otherwise be termed “substantive due process”: They fell within his newly constructed “safe harbor.”
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2023
“I have a suspicion that someone is trying to recategorize my generosity to ex-girlfriends as something more untoward,” Mr. Gaetz told The New York Times in 2021.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
After pioneering so-called “three-strikes” laws in the 1990s that toughened sentencing, state voters, facing drastically overcrowded prisons, agreed in 2014 to soften some sentences and recategorize some felony crimes as misdemeanors.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 6, 2022
