reclassify

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Recent Examples of reclassify The effort to reclassify the drug was stalled during the Biden administration amid resistance from the Drug Enforcement Agency, the New York Times reported. Sara Dorn, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025 Former President Joe Biden's Department of Health and Human Services first made the recommendation to reclassify the drug in 2023. Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 12 Aug. 2025 The Biden Administration moved to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule III drug—a ranking that would lower criminal penalties for it—though officials did not finalize their plans before leaving office. Solcyré Burga, Time, 11 Aug. 2025 Trump weighs major marijuana policy move that would reclassify the plant. FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for reclassify
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reclassify
Verb
  • Yet Britain failed to capitalize on the success, underestimating the American ability to regroup and continue fighting.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Belichick and his staff need to regroup and figure out how to fix things.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The proposal would follow a Department of Justice recommendation and lead the DEA to take public comments on a plan to recategorize marijuana.
    Jordan Green, Nashville Tennessean, 13 Aug. 2025
  • When mistakes are low-consequence, smart leaders recategorize errors as learning opportunities, evolutionary misguidance and situational myopia rather than doling out errors with penalties and professional purgatory.
    Nuala Walsh, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
Verb
  • Using Hubble's data, astronomers have identified more than 80 possible star clusters inside this ring, many less than 100 million years old, though the spiral galaxy itself has likely persisted for over a billion years.
    Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The post did not identify the boy or the friend who was with him.
    Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Through the tear gas and dust, his family recognized Retes’ car and the veteran decal on his window.
    Nicole Foy, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The awards ceremony is a first-of-its-kind international gala recognizing excellence across the space industry.
    Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Navigating the world of priming serums can be a slippery slope due to heavy formulas and glitter-like ingredients that clump upon application.
    Tatayana Yomary, Essence, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The tree branches are pretty clumped together, versus having lots of individual limbs to bend.
    Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • When reached Sunday evening, a family member referred back to the statement.
    Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
  • OpenAI declined to comment to CNBC, referring a reporter to its public filings in the lawsuit.
    Dan Mangan,Josephine Rozzelle, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • No, that one was an antitrust suit filed by Biden’s Department of Justice.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Last year, Porsche’s filed patent for a six-stroke engine, hinting at a shift from traditional four-stroke designs, signaling a potential major evolution in combustion engine technology.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Related Stories In a nutsell, the test arranged by the cutter’s union documented that AI tools are great for organizing, classifying and summarizing.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Police and the media classified Gacy’s victims as male prostitutes and homosexuals, using that as an excuse to marginalize and blame them.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025

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“Reclassify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reclassify. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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