reclassify

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Recent Examples of reclassify The Justice Department and Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) are also speeding up the process to reclassify recreational marijuana during a hearing in June. Tara Lynch, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026 But since that directive, progress to reclassify cannabis has largely stalled, with the Drug Enforcement Administration review still ongoing and no final decision on moving marijuana from Schedule I to the lesser Schedule III. Brandon Gomez, CNBC, 20 Apr. 2026 Aware that Native Americans have a long history of dice games, Madden created a checklist of specific attributes of historical Native American dice to reclassify older artifacts. Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 14 Apr. 2026 The measure, which was the least specific of the four endorsed Wednesday, would reclassify online travel companies as hotel operators to increase how much of their hotel transactions would be subject to the city’s hotel tax, formally known as a transient-occupancy tax. David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for reclassify
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reclassify
Verb
  • Just days before their wedding, a North Texas couple is scrambling to regroup after a tornado destroyed their venue, adding to a week already marked by family loss and heartbreak.
    Trevor Sochocki, CBS News, 29 Apr. 2026
  • It’s been an eventful month for Ryan Day, Ohio State football and the school’s quest to regroup for another College Football Playoff run.
    Cameron Teague Robinson, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • And Blanche invoked that streamlined process to recategorize medical marijuana.
    Bill Chappell, NPR, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Cumming said the city refused to comply with a subpoena by trying to recategorize it as a request under the Maryland Public Information Act (MPIA), per advice from an attorney with the Maryland Office of the Attorney General (OAG).
    Adam Thompson, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Additional details were not immediately available, and the homeowner declined to be identified or comment further.
    Ashley Mackin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Police identified Delgado-Cordoba as a suspect through his rideshare profile, social media and DNA.
    Katie Langford, Denver Post, 25 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Federally recognized, the Monacans remain among the few American sovereign tribes still occupying land in their ancestral homeland.
    Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Long before European arrival, Indigenous peoples across what is now the United States recognized the plant by its distinctive aroma and incorporated it into systems of medicine.
    Kari Traylor, JSTOR Daily, 30 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Witzburg referred, explicitly and indirectly, to several high-profile dust-ups between her office and Johnson’s.
    Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The report recommended that Sanchez refer the case for further investigation by state authorities.
    Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 24 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • No charges were immediately filed.
    Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Tona Henderson, an Idaho resident who has worked for decades to get Idaho included in the program, warned of scammers charging people to help file claims.
    Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 26 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • He was charged with battery and burglary of an unoccupied dwelling in September 2023, and with battery that May — both classified in court records as misdemeanors.
    Claudia Lauer, Sun Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The species is classified as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, a classification that reflects both the remaining threats facing the animals and the significant progress conservation efforts have made.
    Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • This happens because coffee grounds tend to clump and create blockages.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Continue stirring and splashing in water, aiming for where the flour has not yet clumped and shaking the bowl (or scraping down the sides) as needed to incorporate all the flour, until the mixture forms small, irregularly sized clumps, about rice- or pea-sized.
    The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026

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“Reclassify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reclassify. Accessed 1 May. 2026.

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