Alternatively, dualism can mean the tendency of humans to perceive and understand the world as being divided into two overarching categories.

Within the overarching Slavic category, there are many other groups such as Poles, Czechs and Slovenes.

Wilson named this new group "Ellicean" after the pre-independence name of Tuvalu and presented fine-grained evidence for subgroups within that overarching category.

English psychiatrist Henry Maudsley proposed an overarching category of affective disorder.

In the early independence period, the Burmese government recognized the Kachin people as an overarching category.

Symbols used in art may be grouped into four overarching categories: religious imagery, divine and mortal beings, symbols from nature and inanimate objects.

While the overarching generic category for History of a Six Weeks' Tour is that of the travel narrative, its individual sections can be considered separately.

The criteria are divided into four overarching categories which the Index defines as the cornerstone of a government's obligations to its citizens:

In his work on proxemics, Edward T. Hall separated his theory into two overarching categories: personal space and territory.

Five overarching categories correspond to the specialties available under the LEED Accredited Professional program.