category

In a sentence

Six example sentences with category, each labelled with its topic.

• The prize committee created a new category for graphic novels, since judges kept comparing them unfairly against traditional fiction.

  Literature

• Statisticians moved gig drivers into a separate category because their hours and pay behaved nothing like salaried employment.

  Economics

• Lifters who weigh under sixty six kilograms all compete in one category, so a single kilogram changes the schedule.

  Fitness

• The film was entered in the documentary category even though half its scenes had been staged with actors.

  Movies

• Pluto was moved to a new category in 2006, joining other small icy bodies that clear no path around the sun.

  Science

• Speedrunners compete in a separate category for runs that use no glitches, since the two styles are barely the same sport.

  Gaming

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains category. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• construction
• civil
• principal
• requirement
• nonetheless
• device
• eventually
• adapt
• gravity
• decline
• acquire
• principle