1
as in ranks
to arrange or assign according to type
classify the baseball cards in your collection on the basis of rarity
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as in organizes
to put into a particular arrangement
classify the information you got from the Internet by source
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Recent Examples of classifies
The machine learning algorithm, meanwhile, classifies and identifies stationary objects that could lead to collisions.
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Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 6 Jan. 2026
While recipes vary, the glycemic index (GI)—a scale from one to 100 that measures how quickly a food raises blood sugar—of gingerbread cookies is about 66, which classifies them as a high-glycemic food, according to Alexandria Hardy, RDN, LDN, owner of Pennsylvania Nutrition Services.
—Sarah Garone, Health, 22 Dec. 2025
The review, outlined in a USCIS memo published in December, targets pending applications from individuals with adjusted status and from countries the agency classifies as high risk.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
The report classifies DeepSeek in the lower tier of safety-minded companies.
—Jared Perlo, NBC news, 3 Dec. 2025
The research was conducted by an international team of 43 public health and nutrition experts led by Carlos Monteiro, a Brazilian epidemiologist and professor at the University of São Paulo who developed the NOVA system, which classifies foods by how heavily they are processed.
—Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 20 Nov. 2025
The World Health Organization classifies it as an occupational phenomenon, and Gallup reports that 44 percent of employees worldwide experience daily stress — the highest on record.
—Elan Gepner-Dales, Rolling Stone, 14 Nov. 2025
Aid organizations say the reasoning appears to be used to refer to a wide variety of comments the Israeli government classifies as antisemitic.
—Jane Arraf, NPR, 21 Oct. 2025
Forbes classifies Ellison–who bought nearly all of the Hawaiian island Lanai for $300 million in 2012–as a California resident based on his voter registration.
—Ella Malmgren, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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Out of five types of exercise, resistance training ranks highest in improving overall brain health.—
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Detroit, Michigan WalletHub's study includes a more comprehensive analysis that ranks 182 cities based on 31 key metrics that also include factors like average commute time, safety and family friendliness.—
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The text thus distinguishes between the court and the chief judge.—
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Nursing left off the professional degree list Under the new law, the Department of Education created a classification system that distinguishes professional from nonprofessional graduate degrees.—
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Organized Tours The most common option is booking an organized tour where the company arranges your transportation.—
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That changes in episode 6, when Nate (Colm Feore) arranges a meeting between Rebecca and M-Tex’s resident geologist.—
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Ed’s high-paying job allows (or relegates) Jess to be a stay-at-home mum, her life devoted to (and circumscribed by) her children.—
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Like any adaptation, even one that unfolds over four hours, Death by Lightning has to make some hard choices, and creator Mike Makowsky, whose credits include the terrifically entertaining HBO true-crime comedy Bad Education, relegates Bell and Bliss to the sidelines.—
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With his gun pointed at McNealy, Heisler orders him to show his hands and not reach for anything.—
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The agent then orders Parias to turn off his vehicle.—
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The Secretary of State’s Office categorizes spending on lobbying by industry.—
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Crystal Robbins, a program manager with San Diego Fire-Rescue who works with high users of emergency services, said the system sometimes struggles to handle cases like Ed’s where there is a relentless impact on family members, but for infractions that the penal code categorizes as minor.—
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This position distributes weight evenly across the body, reducing localized pressure and muscular tension.—
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During wildfires, users can share snapshots with Watch Duty, a nonprofit that distributes real-time fire alerts to communities and authorities.—
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What separates toxic ambition, for you, from the simple act of wanting something and trying to get it?—
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The design will retain the outdoor sculpture garden, but the garden would include a new free-to-all arts education center and reading room, and the tall steel fencing that now separates the garden from the public along El Prado and near the Old Globe theater campus would be removed.—
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“Classifies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/classifies. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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