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  • adjective Capable of being categorized.

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categorize +‎ -able

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Examples

  • Are people really that categorizable and predicable?

    Cooperative Blog » Blog Archive » David Sedaris 2008

  • Adam Rex's Frankenstein books are also broadly categorizable as a picture story book.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Editorial Anonymous 2009

  • And Gann et al are correct to say that limiting your focus to mainstream classical music means ignoring a lot of less easily categorizable musical activity; again, nothing new there (after all, the opposing sides in the Querelle des Bouffons remained undistracted by the composition of the enduring masterpiece "Yankee Doodle" on the other side of the Channel).

    Archive 2007-01-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • And Gann et al are correct to say that limiting your focus to mainstream classical music means ignoring a lot of less easily categorizable musical activity; again, nothing new there (after all, the opposing sides in the Querelle des Bouffons remained undistracted by the composition of the enduring masterpiece "Yankee Doodle" on the other side of the Channel).

    We can't all, and some of us don't Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • My dislikes are so categorizable, that it's obviously the category, not school, that makes me hate them.

    Classics We Love To Hate 2009

  • Adam Rex's Frankenstein books are also broadly categorizable in this way.

    Cloudy with a Chance of Meaningless Terminology Editorial Anonymous 2009

  • My music education and listening has been so broad that it doesn't sound categorizable to me either.

    A One-of-a-Kind Artist Prepares for His Solo 2009

  • Tell them publicly, statistically, with rhetorical flourish, from the anchorman's desk, hours before going to the polls, that their innermost psyches are predictable, categorizable, and easy to segment int politically predefined categories.

    Charles H. Green: What New Hampshire Voters Really Said 2008

  • Haven't thought about the project much lately, as "independent" film has changed so much and this script is not easily "categorizable."

    GreenCine Daily: Adrienne Shelly, 1966 - 2006. 2006

  • Actually, I'm easily categorizable as "dislocated."

    Archive 2007-07-01 Ann Althouse 2007

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