reclassify

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Recent Examples of reclassify On Monday, the administration offered more details on its plan to reclassify thousands of federal civil servants, stripping them of legal protections from firing, in a memo to agency heads. Marc Caputo, Axios, 28 Jan. 2025 Standout tight end Mark Bowman from Mater Dei has reclassified from the class of 2027 to the class of 2026. . . Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2025 Similarly, those who identified as white but noted African origins were also reclassified, contributing to the inflated multiracial figures. Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025 This switch often involves reclassifying accounts and adjusting how certain transactions are recorded. Ivan Lunegov, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for reclassify 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reclassify
Verb
  • There are also concerns that Russia could be tempted to regroup and attack Ukraine again in the future if Kyiv is not granted sufficient security guarantees.
    Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 15 Feb. 2025
  • The Knicks get a chance to rest, regroup and reflect before the final stretch of a season carrying championship expectations.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 13 Feb. 2025
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  • 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
  • The reintroduced bill would recategorize cranial prosthetics as durable medical equipment covered under the Social Security Act.
    Essence, Essence, 6 Oct. 2021
Verb
  • In court papers, Lee’s accusers are identified as Jane Does.
    Anabel Sosa, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2025
  • The victim was identified as Lanier Miller, 48, of South Holland, Illinois — Adams’ stepfather.
    Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Williams has been recognized with 13 Grammys on 39 nominations, for work on his own and in collaboration with artists such as Nile Rodgers, Daft Punk, Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, and Janet Jackson.
    Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Honored for his performance as legendary musician Pete Seeger in A Complete Unknown, Norton, 55, was previously recognized by the Critics Choice Awards as an individual nominee for 2014’s Birdman and as an ensemble winner for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery and Birdman.
    Jack Smart, People.com, 8 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • This board, however, clumps the function keys into two groups.
    Josh Gulick, PCMAG, 2 Feb. 2025
  • The crescent cells aren't able to flow as freely through the veins, so they get stuck, clumping up to form blockages that result in the incapacitating pain crises Alessia endures.
    Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 27 Jan. 2025
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  • On Tuesday, the bill was referred again to the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy, which Hansen chairs.
    MinnPost, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The decision followed months of scrutiny by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which failed to reach a consensus and referred the matter to the president.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development is stiffing American businesses on hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid bills for work that has already been done, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
    Ellen Knickmeyer, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2025
  • In a tort claim filed Jan. 14, two Boise residents who live in a house near Willow Lane Park decried the city’s 2017 conversion of the park’s tennis courts into six pickleball courts.
    Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 11 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The international community views Syrian civil society organizations more favorably than the caretaker government, whose leaders were classified as terrorists in many countries until recently.
    Jesse Marks, Foreign Affairs, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Nearly three-quarters of all Northeast snowstorms classified as Category 3 or higher on the Northeast Snowfall Impact Scale, or NESIS, from 1956 to 2022 took place in late January or early February, according to statistics from NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information.
    Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025

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“Reclassify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reclassify. Accessed 18 Feb. 2025.

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