Examples of categorize in a Sentence
This software lets you categorize your photographs in many different ways.
Their opinions can be categorized as conservative.
Birds are categorized by type in this field guide.
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The team categorized people into four groups: Inactive (no weekly exercise), insufficiently active (less than 150 minutes per week), weekend warriors (150-plus minutes per week, in one to two sessions) and regularly active (15-plus minutes spread across three or more sessions).
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New Atlas, 25 July 2025
The participants then filled out a questionnaire, which enabled the scientists to categorize each person as a pessimist or optimist.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2025
Lynch would categorize sounds, applying unusual names that spoke to him about the feeling of a section of the show or movie.
—Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 11 July 2025
Trump has also frequented his own resort properties, notably Mar-a-Lago and Bedminster, for personal retreats or closed-press political dinners, but these have generally not been categorized as public events.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 13 July 2025
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New Atlas, 25 July 2025
The participants then filled out a questionnaire, which enabled the scientists to categorize each person as a pessimist or optimist.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2025
Lynch would categorize sounds, applying unusual names that spoke to him about the feeling of a section of the show or movie.
—Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 11 July 2025
Trump has also frequented his own resort properties, notably Mar-a-Lago and Bedminster, for personal retreats or closed-press political dinners, but these have generally not been categorized as public events.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 13 July 2025
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“Categorize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/categorize. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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categorize
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cat·e·go·rize
ˈkat-i-gə-ˌrīz 
categorized; categorizing
: to put into a category : classify
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