How to Use taxonomy in a Sentence

taxonomy

noun

• Herbaria like the one in Kherson, a port city in the south of Ukraine, are about more than just taxonomy.
  — Johanna Chisholm, WIRED, 8 July 2023
• But the taxonomy of this whole group has been up for debate.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 13 Aug. 2024
• At what point can genre and taxonomy start to do damage?
  — Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2021
• And in a nod to Sternberg’s utopian leanings, there’s a taxonomy to it all.
  — Sam Schube, GQ, 4 Apr. 2018
• The father of taxonomy, Carl Linnaeus, coined names to curry the favour (and open the purses) of rich patrons.
  — Kevin Thiele, Smithsonian, 28 Apr. 2018
• Some of Richard McGuire’s sequences are taxonomies: bird cages, hats, ice, or the collection of wire shapes that decorates the front matter of this book.
  — The New York Review of Books, 13 Oct. 2016
• The heartless, slash-and-burn approach is more fitting of a WikiOrc or a WikiTroll, two villains of the site’s taxonomy.
  — Stephen Harrison, Wired, 15 Jan. 2021
• The bigger problem, maybe, is just the nature of wine taxonomy.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 23 Jan. 2020
• Looking back on the Mean Girl Cinema of the decade, a number of trends emerged that seemed worthy of the taxonomy treatment.
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 15 Aug. 2024
• Peep this helpful taxonomy of bike-share to figure it all out.
  — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 27 Apr. 2018
• So Belousova’s team set out to build its own taxonomy of food.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 2 Apr. 2018
• Brown helps actors choose from his taxonomy of archetypes: aloof drunk, happy drunk, maudlin drunk and angry drunk.
  — New York Times, 12 Oct. 2021
• Even the father of taxonomy, Carl Linnaeus, was stumped.
  — The Economist, 2 Apr. 2020
• On the docks, brokers parse the crowd according to a taxonomy of potential.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
• Whatever the taxonomy, though, the same grievances and issues run through the interviews in this book.
  — Kate Zernike, New York Times, 15 June 2018
• The taxonomy of the projects, their construction and placement, is so much window dressing.
  — Sydette Harry, Wired, 11 Jan. 2021
• The result was a novel taxonomy of health care providers: 400 buckets based on what doctors do, rather than the title on their office doors.
  — Megan Molteni, WIRED, 12 May 2017
• There are also coastal brown bears, and they are named under the taxonomy Ursus arctos.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 13 Dec. 2023
• Like in one scene, Stan’s mom puffs on a cigarette and offers a taxonomy of hippies to all the curious children in her car.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2022
• The only certain things are death and taxes—or, perhaps, death and taxonomy.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 Dec. 2022
• Austin Wood, a senior stylist at Saks, has developed a helpful taxonomy around faces and frames.
  — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 23 Aug. 2023
• But that awesome image is as close as your friend is going to get to erasing the meaning of words and paranormal taxonomy in my court.
  — John Hodgman, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
• This dispiriting error of taxonomy drained a lot of the energy out of Project S.A.D., and also my kid was getting tired and cranky from walking around in the heat.
  — Christopher Bonanos, The Cut, 5 July 2018
• Cannabis, as defined by its current taxonomy, is a genus.
  — Noelle Crombie, OregonLive.com, 18 Aug. 2017
• While the full taxonomy of drones has become overwhelming to think about, the expansion has come steadily.
  — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 8 Jan. 2016
• For taxonomy purposes, a beard consists of swaths of facial hair that slide down from the middle of the earlobe, hugging the chin and cascading to the Adam’s apple.
  — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 18 June 2019
• Rights come from a demonstration not of DNA or taxonomy, but of mental and moral ability.
  — Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2010
• The Remains of the Day unspools over a few days in the 1950s, as a butler reflects on his years of service in a grand household, at once taxonomy of English life and indictment of the nation.
  — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2021
• The taxonomy of European crows had been a problem for centuries.
  — Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2021
• Just as traditional trade regimes require goods and services to be priced and their origins defined, so, too, must this framework create a taxonomy to classify data flows by value and source.
  — Matthew J. Slaughter, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024