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- verb Present participle of
categorise .
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Examples
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Former PKV VC Sharad Nimbalkar completely rejected the idea of categorising farmers into small or big.
The Times of India 2010
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Some of the issues raised by the veterans, such as categorising those who would get monthly pensions, were referred to the cabinet for further discussion.
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Human-beings like categorising which is an essential strategy to cope with the complexity of life.
LearnHub Activities 2008
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This is distinct from categorising a novel by the tropes it uses - and both have their uses.
Why Science Fiction Authors Can't Win Lou Anders 2009
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Then I found something on David Copperfield: In the UK, there was a belief that crime could be beaten simply by accurately categorising incidents as crimes and then by detecting those crimes.
Crime and punishment in Labour Britain Not a sheep 2009
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The idea that we can systematically understand certain aspects of the world and make predictions based on what we've learned – while appreciating and categorising the extent and limitations of what we know – plays a big role in how we think.
Learn to love uncertainty and failure, say leading thinkers | Edge question 2011
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I think we have to be very careful about categorising old people as different: we may need treatment that is different, but please, not inferior.
GPs can't cope with the elderly alone. They need support | The big issue 2011
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Most recently, the team found that being nostalgic led to people categorising positive traits as relevant to themselves more quickly than when thinking about a positive future event, perhaps because such memories often feature the self in a positive light.
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Auden in his introduction to his Collected Poems well, the first one of his collected poems, said in a writer's work there are usually four categories – he loved categorising things.
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Isn't it about time we had an independent guide to the admissions policies of all universities, alongside a genuinely transparent set of information on the subjects they are categorising and the learning outcomes they are designed to produce?
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