Example Sentences

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In December, the World Health Organization announced that it was classifying JN.1 as a separate variant of interest.

From Salon • Jan. 12, 2024

Therefore, the only mistake that the calculator made was classifying 3 still-married couples as “probably divorced.”

From Scientific American • May 10, 2013

Last year, he took credit for the elimination of a regulation that was classifying dairy spills as disasters akin to—and as expensive in court as—oil spills.

From Slate • Feb. 12, 2013

This could be interpreted as clear evidence that the system was classifying on the basis of bigram frequencies, so it found the words with intermediate bigram frequencies confusing.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 6, 2012

Do you remember the day Killigrew was classifying men by whether they wandered or stayed at home?

From Secret Bread by Jesse, F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson)