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After Magento 2.2 you can add a searchable dropdown using the below code.
<field name="category" sortOrder="50" formElement="select">
<argument name="data" xsi:type="array">
<item name="options" xsi:type="object">Namespace\Modulename\Model\Source\Category</...
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