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administrate

[ad-min-uh-strayt] / ædˈmɪn əˌstreɪt /




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“They know very well they can’t administrate, in the sense that we can’t send money through them,” she said of the militants.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2021

The way to think of a magistrate is as the Romans meant it: one empowered to administrate.

From Fox News ● Aug. 6, 2020

“You cannot recruit, you cannot train, you cannot retain, and you cannot administrate, ” he said.

From New York Times ● May 12, 2016

ICM Registry was finally awarded the right to administrate the new domain.

From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2012

Truly it was no sinecure to rule and administrate the diocese of Hippo!

From Saint Augustin by Vincent O'Sullivan

"It has been challenging for us," said Tys, director of a management consulting firm who in his spare time administrates at the school along with three others while a head teacher oversees academic matters.

From Reuters ● Apr. 4, 2022

As the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, which administrates PISA, noted last year, the United States—with its fairly unique system of local control—shows “significant performance variability” between states.

From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2017

This year has already seen an unprecedented level of litigation related to the election and the procedures by which the election will be administrated.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2024

Orally administrated probiotics have therefore been widely used to alleviate symptoms.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2023

The working group meeting is being held in Srinagar, the summer capital of the federally administrated territory, from Monday to Wednesday.

From BBC ● May 22, 2023

By the third century BCE, this system was being administrated by a combination of public assemblies, elected officials, and the Senate.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Pedro de Merida, canon of Palencia, administrated until the arrival of the archbishop.

From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Juan Antonio Llorente

It would take a bit of administrating, just to make sure the injury is absolutely genuine.

From BBC ● May 22, 2025

These sites are going to get it wrong sometimes, given they’re administrating millions or billions of users saying millions or billions of nonsensical things every day.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2022

Fire authorities were administrating CPR to at least 50 people in the Itaewon district as of 11:30 p.m.

From Reuters ● Oct. 29, 2022

The Fund then asked UNDP, already the administrating authority for its disease program in Afghanistan, to assume responsibility for disbursing the money.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2021

Hardly had the revolution in Turkey occurred when Austria, who had, by the terms of the Berlin Treaty, been simply administrating the two provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina, annexed them without any ceremony.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers by Allen L. (Allen Leon) Churchill




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