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categorize

Verb

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To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people. Roger Ebert

For some people, they may categorize it as "gay love”. And for me, I simply see it as love. And there's no corner of the universe where love cannot abide and grow. Jennifer Beals

In this country, some aristocratic families automatically categorize persons with dark skin, thick lips, and kinky hair as "Barias" [Amharic for slave]... let it be clear to everybody that I shall soon make these ignoramuses stoop and grind corn! Mengistu Haile Mariam

Life is funny. Life isn't categorized into comedy, drama, action, is it? So I don't know why they try to categorize everything. It drives me crazy-why it would have to be just a romantic comedy or... I want to have a little integrity, a little story, you know? Jennifer Aniston

It was relatively easy, we now realize, to categorize countries and nations. You knew who your enemies were and whom you could count on as collaborators and friends. And even more importantly, you had ready-made scapegoats to take the blame when things were going wrong. Desmond Tutu

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside. Dorothy Allison

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