subcategorizing

verb

present participle of subcategorize
as in grouping

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  1. grouping
  2. typing
  3. categorizing
  4. classifying
  5. distributing
  6. organizing
  7. drawing up
  8. filing
Verb
  • In 2023, Canali debuted Care, an umbrella program grouping all the brand’s eco- and responsibility-minded initiatives.
    — Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Williams kept the respective songs from each album close together, grouping them in three- and four-track clusters.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of grouping
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  • If malware steals an active login session, an attacker may be able to access an account without typing your password again.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Rules of Civility, Amor Towles A whip-smart Brooklyn girl from a working-class immigrant family, stationed in a Wall Street typing pool, meets a charming banker named Tinker Grey in a Greenwich Village jazz bar on the last night of 1937.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of typing
Verb
  • Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday rejected the idea that election monitors being deployed to polls during the midterm elections will be armed, categorizing the notion as fearmongering and false.
    — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Some of the recent gains came from re-categorizing conservation agreements that had already existed.
    — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of categorizing
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  • Below, members of Forbes Technology Council share strategies for classifying large volumes of unstructured data while keeping the manual workload manageable.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Zema has proposed classifying major criminal factions as terrorist organizations.
    — Katie Angell Britannica Editors Oct. 2, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of classifying
Verb
  • Deablo wears the green dot for the Falcons’ defense, giving him the responsibility of distributing play calls to his teammates.
    — Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 3 Oct. 2026
  • The rollout included distributing the new shoe across 5,000 doors, twice the average for a Nike basketball signature shoe, Hill explained.
    — Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of distributing
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  • Bookkeeping is the process of recording and organizing your business's day-to-day financial activity.
    — Carson Brunson, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Meanwhile, the Union Syndicale Lycéenne, one of the high school student unions involved in organizing the demonstrations, suggested a much larger turnout of 450,000 people across the country.
    — Melissa Bell, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of organizing
Verb
  • Without that rule, threatened species no longer get automatic protections and instead rely on agencies drawing up species-specific rules for each one, a process that can take years.
    — Timothy Randhir, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2026
  • This impetus did not begin with the war on terror; generations of American leaders and scholars have sought to increase presidential power, drawing up mechanisms that could sideline civil liberties and intertwine military and police activities.
    — Daniel Benjamin, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of drawing up
Verb
  • Known for his exacting, couture-like approach, and an experimental zeal rare among designers at Europe’s largest luxury brands, the Frenchman got his start in fashion by filing, photocopying and cataloguing fabrics at Jean Paul Gaultier.
    — Miles Socha, Footwear News, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Examples under laws enforced by the Labor Commissioner include filing certain wage complaints, exercising rights under the Labor Code and raising some workplace health or safety concerns.
    — William Jones, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of filing
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“Subcategorizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subcategorizing. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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