How to Use taxonomy in a Sentence

taxonomy

noun
  • What are the tropes, the touch points, the themes, the taxonomies, the treasures, the traps?
    — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2024
  • The goal should not be a perfect taxonomy.
    — Keith Ferrazzi, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • Peep this helpful taxonomy of bike-share to figure it all out.
    — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Whether or not this study settles the question of taxonomy, there’s much left to learn.
    — Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Workforce taxonomies solve this problem.
    — Ben Zweig, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2025
  • So Belousova’s team set out to build its own taxonomy of food.
    — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 2 Apr. 2018
  • The bigger problem, maybe, is just the nature of wine taxonomy.
    — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 23 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • As far as Noe is concerned, the Kronosaurus taxonomy is still up in the air.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 13 Aug. 2024
  • And in a nod to Sternberg’s utopian leanings, there’s a taxonomy to it all.
    — Sam Schube, GQ, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The only certain things are death and taxes—or, perhaps, death and taxonomy.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 Dec. 2022
  • There are also coastal brown bears, and they are named under the taxonomy Ursus arctos.
    — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Among the world’s legions of migrants, a certain pedal taxonomy holds.
    — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 17 July 2019
  • On the docks, brokers parse the crowd according to a taxonomy of potential.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
  • The taxonomy of the projects, their construction and placement, is so much window dressing.
    — Sydette Harry, Wired, 11 Jan. 2021
  • Based on this taxonomy, the researchers estimate that kissing evolved after the great apes split from the lesser apes.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 19 Nov. 2025
  • While the full taxonomy of drones has become overwhelming to think about, the expansion has come steadily.
    — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 8 Jan. 2016
  • 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
  • Whatever the taxonomy, though, the same grievances and issues run through the interviews in this book.
    — Kate Zernike, New York Times, 15 June 2018
  • This requires another layer of embedding and taxonomy to be built on top of the transcript of sales calls.
    — Jesse Li, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • The taxonomy of European crows had been a problem for centuries.
    — Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Any new psychiatric taxonomy develops in the shadow of the old.
    — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
  • Some of the disconnect can be chalked up to taxonomy, as many streaming sports feeds are merely simulcasts of live linear telecasts.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 27 May 2026
  • The area of bot taxonomy is young enough—and complex enough—that the variety of human profiles almost matches that of the bots.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 June 2017
  • Austin Wood, a senior stylist at Saks, has developed a helpful taxonomy around faces and frames.
    — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 23 Aug. 2023
  • And to me, the much more interesting challenge is to develop this taxonomy.
    — Quanta Magazine, 15 June 2022
  • Sander wasn’t the first German to use photography in the service of taxonomy.
    — Max Norman, New Yorker, 21 May 2026
  • He was known for his contribution to the taxonomy and phylogeny of the higher fungi.
    — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Here’s a taxonomy of all the different ways Hollywood sells you two tickets to one story.
    — Vulture, 14 June 2023
  • At the top level of this taxonomy, all species are grouped into either one of the domains of bacteria, archae or eukarya.
    — Eva Amsen, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025

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