How to Use reclassify in a Sentence

reclassify

verb
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  • With so much time between now and then, there’s a chance Lewis could decide to reclassify to the class of 2025.
    — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Of course, Bates could still reclassify into 2021 and start the debate all over again.
    — oregonlive, 13 Nov. 2020
  • She was reclassified to a low-security wing of the prison in 2021.
    — Elena Santa Cruz, USA TODAY, 10 May 2023
  • The party has been against reclassifying cannabis as a drug.
    — Heather Chen, CNN, 29 Sep. 2023
  • This research led the experts and the Fish and Wildlife Service to again reclassify Mexican ducks four years ago, this time back to their own species.
    — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 30 Aug. 2023
  • As part of the vote, the City Council had to reclassify the zoning for the complex, from Civic Center to downtown commercial.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2021
  • In a blog post, Lyft said that the rule doesn’t reclassify its drivers as employees, and won’t force a change to its business model as of now.
    — Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2022
  • With jets both in the plane of the school and with one directed at us, this galaxy was reclassified as a radio galaxy with a blazar at its center.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Bates — who committed to MSU in June — could reclassify and graduate early to join the class of 2021.
    — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Even after reclassifying to Class 3A, the Juggernauts were left out of a number of statewide polls.
    — Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Her office has a team of three working to reclassify the data based on the funds different jobs are paid out of, starting with the general fund.
    — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 17 Sep. 2022
  • While some members of the Class of 2021 are back as graduate students or were able to reclassify, most of the returning starters this fall were sophomores the last time their school played games.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2021
  • That same year, the FBI joined the investigation and reclassified her case as a kidnapping.
    — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 14 June 2023
  • The two could be competing at quarterback a year early if Simmons is able to reclassify to 2024.
    — Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Employees who were at the midpoint of their job's pay range may have seen their job reclassified to a lower level, putting them at the height of the new job classification's salary range.
    — Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Ewers, who only has one class to complete to earn his high school degree, will reclassify to the recruiting class of 2021 and will be eligible to play for Ohio State this season.
    — Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2021
  • In August, a California court ordered Uber and Lyft to reclassify their drivers in the state as employees, delivering a win to the state.
    — Sara Ashley O'Brien, CNN, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Boley, who plans to enroll in January after reclassifying to the 2024 class, already will have been on campus for more than a year by the time Saunders arrives in Lexington.
    — Ryan Black, The Courier-Journal, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Bates played just one season at Ypsi Prep before reclassifying and heading to Memphis.
    — Andrew Birkle, Detroit Free Press, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Uber and Lyft alone gained more than $10 billion in market value after the vote, and defanged a recent state court injunction that would have required them to reclassify their drivers as employees.
    — Josh Eidelson, Bloomberg.com, 8 Nov. 2020
  • Iran Chima of Chima’s Tow previously told her that, because all of her property was being reclassified as trash on Tuesday, she would be allowed to take it with her.
    — Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Shinall said employers who may offer more flexibility in terms of when and how workers work and base their pay on the completion of projects may be able to reclassify workers’ status.
    — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The line between restaurants and bars was blurred almost beyond recognition last fall when bars were able to use a loophole and reclassify as restaurants to circumvent the order that prevented bars from opening.
    — Claire Ballor, Dallas News, 8 Jan. 2021
  • So no one disputes that the President has the authority to reclassify people within the government.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 18 July 2023
  • Advanced molecular subtyping tests can reclassify up to 30% of tumors thought to be luminal as basal-type tumors, which are twice as common in Black women than in white women.
    — Nathalie McDowell Johnson, STAT, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Uber and Lyft have threatened to leave California, at least temporarily, if they are forced to reclassify drivers as employees.
    — Carolyn Said, SFChronicle.com, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Several states have already passed legislation to reclassify the role, and a bill was introduced in Congress in December.
    — Meg Anderson, NPR, 5 Apr. 2024
  • In the company’s native market of Spain, lawmakers have passed a sweeping new law for gig economy firms that requires them to reclassify couriers as employees.
    — Jonathan Keane, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
  • The state is trying to reclassify the former workers and recoup tens of thousands of dollars in retirement benefits and employer contributions to the state pension plan.
    — oregonlive, 12 July 2023
  • Jones was a vocal supporter of a 2019 proposal by state lawmakers that would reclassify certain low-level felony drug charges to misdemeanors.
    — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 7 Oct. 2021

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