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

Mr. Camarota said his understanding of Texas’ data is that it doesn’t recategorize legal immigrants to illegal immigrants over time.

From Washington Times • Oct. 12, 2022

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

In a sign of how difficult it can be to recategorize long-ago deaths, C.D.C. records include a fifth Covid-related death from January 2020, in Oklahoma.

From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2021

The cultural conversations that surrounded each of these hashtags have resurfaced long-submerged memories for some women and pushed others to reassess and recategorize transgressions they once waved away as benign.

From Slate • Sep. 23, 2018