How to Use categorical in a Sentence

categorical

adjective

• He issued a categorical denial about his involvement in the deal.
• In the war headlines graph, the categorical variable is the years of major U.S. wars since 1900.
  — New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
• This is not to say that presenting Bach on the piano is any sort of categorical mistake.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 14 May 2018
• In light of the concerns about the impacts of satellites on the night sky, Ryan says, this categorical exclusion would be unlikely to stand up in a court of law.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2020
• These promises have turned out to be less than categorical.
  — Andrew Rice, Daily Intelligencer, 12 June 2017
• This perhaps would point to the idea that people are sticking to their standbys—at least from a categorical perspective—at this time.
  — Rachel King, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2020
• Long bones, short bones, flat bones and irregular bones are the four categorical bone types, as betterhealth.vic.gov.au explains.
  — Liam Gravvat, USA TODAY, 17 June 2022
• The researchers wanted to see if the black-and-white lemurs had categorical rhythm — the ability to create different types of rhythm patterns.
  — Megan Marples, CNN, 25 Oct. 2021
• But a look back reminds us that categorical content bans often come at the expense of marginalized groups.
  — Michael Waters, Wired, 28 Feb. 2021
• At this point, the next logical step is for the committee to follow up on this allegation and the categorical denial from the judge.
  — Fox News, 24 Sep. 2018
• The categorical exceptions comprise most of the statute’s text.
  — Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2019
• State aid payments are scheduled by statute, but categorical payments are not governed by the law or a court order, Pallasch said.
  — Suzanne Baker, Naperville Sun, 16 May 2017
• This is the first time these categorical rhythms have been identified in a nonhuman mammal.
  — Sam Jones, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2021
• Proving those types of categorical distinctions is among the hardest and most important open problems in the field.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 July 2018
• For me, that image is the absolute categorical picture of what solitude is.
  — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2021
• The Chronicle looked at projects on Cortese list sites for which the city granted or considered categorical exemptions.
  — Cynthia Dizikes, SFChronicle.com, 7 June 2020
• The company’s most valuable piece of software can analyze the content of a video, determine what the video is about, and then attach categorical tags, or metadata, to the piece of content.
  — Brittany Meiling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2021
• The team's analysis revealed that indris follow a set of patterns known as categorical rhythms.
  — Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2021
• An enhanced risk is a three out of five on the categorical scale measuring the risk for thunderstorms that could produce damaging wind gusts, large hail, or tornadoes.
  — Dennis Mersereau, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• Henry Woolf, a friend who had been familiar with Le Prince’s camera from its earliest days, was categorical.
  — Nat Segnit, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
• Hinkle, in his ruling, said the state claims its actions are not a categorical ban because applicants can still apply for a waiver to be exempted.
  — Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024
• That is the clear message from the latest scientific reports, which are categorical in warning us of looming, radical changes in the earth systems that have so far been keeping us safe.
  — Christiana Figueres, Time, 12 Jan. 2023
• That replaced the categorical approach, which took a more binary view of mental syndromes and assessed whether conditions were present or not.
  — David Adam, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
• Others, like the Travis County district attorney, José Garza, have been more direct and categorical.
  — New York Times, 29 June 2022
• Judges have rejected these arguments so far, in part because Phillips’s refusal to serve Craig and Mullins was so categorical, and their conversation so brief.
  — Roger Parloff, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2017
• The decision, on a vote of 8 to 1, did not establish a categorical ban on regulating student speech outside of school, citing the need of school systems to be able to deal with issues like bullying and threats.
  — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 23 June 2021
• Still, Harrison’s lack of a categorical denial encouraged McNutt and supporters of the plane, who have been trying for years to get the city to approve flying it again over Baltimore.
  — Catherine Rentz, baltimoresun.com, 20 Aug. 2019
• Payments for those services – known as categorical payments – are supposed to come quarterly, but the state only recently made the first quarter payment, which was to be paid at the end of September 2016.
  — Suzanne Baker, Naperville Sun, 16 May 2017
• Even if the court then moves with considerable speed and issues a categorical decision against Mr. Trump within a month, the trial would most likely not start until at least the fall, well into the heart of the presidential campaign.
  — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
• Advocates too often refer to cooperation as a categorical good, implying that there is an orchard full of low-hanging fruit just waiting to be plucked.
  — Evan Medeiros, Foreign Affairs, 17 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024