How to Use taxonomy in a Sentence

taxonomy

noun
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  • Herbaria like the one in Kherson, a port city in the south of Ukraine, are about more than just taxonomy.
    — Johanna Chisholm, WIRED, 8 July 2023
  • At what point can genre and taxonomy start to do damage?
    — Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2021
  • And in a nod to Sternberg’s utopian leanings, there’s a taxonomy to it all.
    — Sam Schube, GQ, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The father of taxonomy, Carl Linnaeus, coined names to curry the favour (and open the purses) of rich patrons.
    — Kevin Thiele, Smithsonian, 28 Apr. 2018
  • Some of Richard McGuire’s sequences are taxonomies: bird cages, hats, ice, or the collection of wire shapes that decorates the front matter of this book.
    — The New York Review of Books, 13 Oct. 2016
  • The heartless, slash-and-burn approach is more fitting of a WikiOrc or a WikiTroll, two villains of the site’s taxonomy.
    — Stephen Harrison, Wired, 15 Jan. 2021
  • The bigger problem, maybe, is just the nature of wine taxonomy.
    — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Peep this helpful taxonomy of bike-share to figure it all out.
    — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 27 Apr. 2018
  • So Belousova’s team set out to build its own taxonomy of food.
    — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Brown helps actors choose from his taxonomy of archetypes: aloof drunk, happy drunk, maudlin drunk and angry drunk.
    — New York Times, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Even the father of taxonomy, Carl Linnaeus, was stumped.
    — The Economist, 2 Apr. 2020
  • On the docks, brokers parse the crowd according to a taxonomy of potential.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
  • Whatever the taxonomy, though, the same grievances and issues run through the interviews in this book.
    — Kate Zernike, New York Times, 15 June 2018
  • The taxonomy of the projects, their construction and placement, is so much window dressing.
    — Sydette Harry, Wired, 11 Jan. 2021
  • The result was a novel taxonomy of health care providers: 400 buckets based on what doctors do, rather than the title on their office doors.
    — Megan Molteni, WIRED, 12 May 2017
  • There are also coastal brown bears, and they are named under the taxonomy Ursus arctos.
    — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Like in one scene, Stan’s mom puffs on a cigarette and offers a taxonomy of hippies to all the curious children in her car.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2022
  • The only certain things are death and taxes—or, perhaps, death and taxonomy.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Austin Wood, a senior stylist at Saks, has developed a helpful taxonomy around faces and frames.
    — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 23 Aug. 2023
  • But that awesome image is as close as your friend is going to get to erasing the meaning of words and paranormal taxonomy in my court.
    — John Hodgman, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
  • This dispiriting error of taxonomy drained a lot of the energy out of Project S.A.D., and also my kid was getting tired and cranky from walking around in the heat.
    — Christopher Bonanos, The Cut, 5 July 2018
  • Cannabis, as defined by its current taxonomy, is a genus.
    — Noelle Crombie, OregonLive.com, 18 Aug. 2017
  • While the full taxonomy of drones has become overwhelming to think about, the expansion has come steadily.
    — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 8 Jan. 2016
  • For taxonomy purposes, a beard consists of swaths of facial hair that slide down from the middle of the earlobe, hugging the chin and cascading to the Adam’s apple.
    — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 18 June 2019
  • Rights come from a demonstration not of DNA or taxonomy, but of mental and moral ability.
    — Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2010
  • The Remains of the Day unspools over a few days in the 1950s, as a butler reflects on his years of service in a grand household, at once taxonomy of English life and indictment of the nation.
    — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2021
  • The taxonomy of European crows had been a problem for centuries.
    — Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Over the years, Roz Chast has demonstrated a remarkable talent for imagining the vast taxonomy of things that can—and sometimes do—intrude on a day of fun at the beach.
    — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Any new psychiatric taxonomy develops in the shadow of the old.
    — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
  • The new paper provides a taxonomy of singularities for different scale-factor scenarios.
    — Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 31 May 2024

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