administer
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She said the Fed could still hold rates steady rather than administer that medicine, but it would have to explain its decision clearly to markets.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
Fight back and protect the people who administer elections.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
“Despite the significant efforts from specialists to administer care, medical treatment and extensive testing, veterinarians did not identify one definitive cause for her poor condition,” the center said on its website.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Grant recipients must ensure mental-health consultations are available at least once a month and ensure “collaborative relationships and partnerships with community organizations” that administer welfare programs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
When psychologists administer the IAT, they usually don’t use paper and pencil tests like the ones I’ve just given you.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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On average, families complete the five-year program with $8,500 in savings, according to Compass Working Capital, one of the HUD partners that administers the program and also provides financial coaching to tenants who participate.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
Lawton's letter was sent from a company called Equiniti, which administers the pension scheme on behalf of the MoD.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
The Commerce Department, which administers the steel and aluminum tariffs, declined to comment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
I know of a nurse in San Francisco who screeches her car to a stop when she spots a person in bodily distress and administers CPR if appropriate.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026
I watch as he puts the thin wafer between her dry lips and administers the cup, murmuring in Latin.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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Chinese regulators first granted approval for CAR-T therapy to be administered to overseas patients in 2021.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
EVs administered without the MAP scaffold failed to produce comparable blood vessel repair.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Fearing the man suffered crush injuries, paramedics reached his arm through the trash and administered medication through an IV as the two-hour rescue stretched on, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Currently, people receiving means-tested benefits are entitled to the one-off £150 Warm Home Discount over the winter, something administered by the energy suppliers themselves.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
He read my ticket and then went through a reprise of the just-the-facts interrogation he had administered that afternoon in the Watch Commander’s Office.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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Wisconsin, New Hampshire, and Minnesota are among a small group of states with a decentralized election system, in which individual cities and towns, rather than counties, are responsible for administering ballots.
From Slate ● Sep. 3, 2026
If my trust remains unfunded, who pays the expenses of administering my estate/trust, such as attorney fees, cremation, and other costs?
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
It is common practice for the state to consider aligning its tax code with the federal structure to make filing taxes easier and administering them more cheaply.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
But Plymouth isn’t Congress, and a municipal historical commission isn’t administering federal Indian affairs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
These men were in charge of administering the prisons on a day-to-day basis.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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